WooCommerce duplicate sub categories and product slugs

Too bad no-ones answered you on this simple question. I guess you’ve allready figured it out, but for anyone else wondering the same:

A WooCommerce Slug is the true path to a certain category/product the database uses to find the correct category/product (just like on a computer: usr:\\My_Computer\Desktop\ or c:\\programfiles\desktop\), and can often be seen as a permalink in your browsers URL field (i.e.: http://yourshop.com/clothes/pants/).

This means that categories and products can have the same names, as long as the slugs are not the same (NB: within that category!)
You can have:

/BUY/sub-category/product-name and /HIRE/sub-category/product-name but not:
/BUY/sub-category/product-name and /BUY/sub-category/product-name

If you do not like the browser showing this, you can change your permalink settings, so that it looks like something like this: http://yourshop.com/?P=123 but bare in mind that search engines don’t look as kindly on this.

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