Display Slug instead of Name

From your code, it looks like product_cat is a custom taxonomy. get_the_terms returns an array you can get the slug from. For instance…

$terms_array = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'procuct_cat');
$term_slug = $terms_array['your index']->slug;

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