The main reason that you don't already have a built-in way to do that in the view model is because most stores don't do this.  The most common use case is that a product could belong to many categories, so adding this to the view is a nightmare scenario to a designer.  :D   
  
 You can add a method to the view in question that queries the API for the product and then list the various categories it belongs to.
										Will Strohl, Upendo Ventures 
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