Shop page template without actual shop page?

i’m trying to use the product archive template as the shop page - as i don’t have an actual published shop page.

i’m understanding the following as a way to achieve this, in using the template itself in place of having separately published a dedicated shop page to which to apply the template:

i cannot add a condition to the template which applies to a page that doesn’t exist:

thanks for clarifications!

bumping this thread. hoping for some clarification, as i feel i may be misunderstanding something!

thanks