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Was the time when slugs were sold in 25s, maybe $0.75 a box more than "premium" target rounds, about the same price as the heavier field loads. Then the manufacturere figured they could get a far better price by selling them in fives. Same with Buckshot.
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I'm pretty close to being an "old man" and I don't recall seeing many 25 round boxes of buckshot. I know I've only bought one in my life, about 35 years ago, and I've still got shells (and the box) left from that box. When I was a kid, stores used to sell individual shells, so those were probably 25 round boxes, but they were far from common. Slugs were all but unknown where I grew up. Since I got old enough to drive, and buy shells on my own, buckshot has always come in five packs (slugs also).
As for why there aren't cheap slug/buckshot loads? There's no demand for them I would guess. The "tactical" craze is fairly new. I never knew many hunters who practiced with buckshot loads. (Slugs aren't againts the law, but were against the rules in most hunt clubs I've hunted with.) They'd fire a few rounds to pattern their guns, maybe a few to shoot at groundhogs in the garden, and a dozen or so for deer hunting. What was left over this year, carried over to next year. They don't go bad.
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I always thought that it had to do with the fact that buckshot and slugs are cast, while birdshot is dropped through a sieve.
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That's a factor too, I'm sure.