Is your taxonomy-product_cat.php not working? All you may need is to add your WooCommerce theme support to your theme function’s file.
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Add theme support for WooCommerce taxonomy templates
To allow your taxonomy-product_cat.php to register, you must add the WooCommerce theme support to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file.
add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' );
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Refresh your permalinks
You could try to refresh your permalinks after you’ve created the file in your WordPress theme’s root directory.
You can do this by visiting your WordPress Dashboard>Settings>Permalinks and clicking Save Changes without changing anything.
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