I’ve checked and WordPress does, by default, retrieve & cache all post meta along with the main query’s posts, so you’re perfectly fine storing a product’s additional fields as standard post meta.
You might want to store Brands (merchants? manufacturers?) as a custom taxonomy so that you can take advantage of built-in templates and queries to show all products of a certain brand.
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