Loop inside of a loop. Don't show item from first loop if no posts in inside loop

Hmm… So I just realized that this from the beginning doesn’t work… So I for sure need to get that to work first before testing anything else

<Loop type=taxonomy_term taxonomy=location_state>
    <h2><Field title /></h2>
    <Loop type=store taxonomy=rewards terms="{Field id}">
        <a href="{Field url}"><Field title /></a>
    </Loop>
</Loop>

This DOES work (below), so idk why changing the taxonomy on the inner Loop (in my example above) doesn’t work?

<Loop type=taxonomy_term taxonomy=location_state>
    <h2><Field title /></h2>
    <Loop type=store taxonomy=location_state terms="{Field id}">
        <a href="{Field url}"><Field title /></a>
    </Loop>
</Loop>

I’m going to open up a separate thread to discuss this part first: Taxonomy loop with post loop inside (but pulling another taxonomy)?