Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner. I’m not really sure what it is that WooCommerce (WC) is doing here. I think that it can either be showing a product or a sub category as a “shop_loop_item”
You’re also saying this is a category page, but the page starts with global $product; which would indicate a product page and not a category page. From what I can tell looking at the code you posted you are editing the file that shows products in a loop content-product.php, WC uses a different template for showing sub categories content-product_cat.php. So I’m not really sure what you doing.
