What information is better to place in the online store in the categories of the 1st and 2nd levels, product cards or cards with sections of the next category?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

Hello! Please tell me, I am creating a multi-regional online furniture store, in each region there are different products, and when building product categories, I noticed that many online stores in the categories of the 1st and 2nd levels do not display product cards, but display blocks with the names of sections the next category, and already in the third category, cards with goods are displayed. If I do this, then pages with categories of the 1st and 2nd levels in different regions will be duplicated and search engines may throw them out.
And if I bring product cards to all levels, then I can expand the semantics and due to unique information, the pages will no longer be duplicated in different regions.
Example of product categories:
- Upholstered furniture (1st level)
- - Sofas (2nd level)
- - - Corner sofas (3rd level)
- - - Straight sofas (3rd level)
- - Armchairs (2nd level)
- - - Child seats (3rd level)
- - - Rocking chairs ( 3rd level) th level)
And here the question arises, what kind of information is better to place in the categories of the 1st and 2nd levels, product cards or cards with sections of the next category?

Answer 1

If I do this, then pages with categories of the 1st and 2nd levels in different regions will be duplicated and search engines may throw them out.

When specifying the appropriate toponyms in the meta tags, everything is normally kept in the index.
Depending on the intent of requests + see what is more often in the TOP.