You seem to be getting an awful lot of different concepts confused, certainly more than could be sorted out in this form.
One way to solve this would be a base class Product from which all your various “product types” derive, solving your first bullet point neatly, as any standard container could hold various types with a common base class.
But your description is so nebulous that I cannot tell if this would even be a viable solution for you…
My impression is that you are trying to solve advanced producer / worker problems without basic experience with OOP and C++. Start at the beginning, and work patiently through the examples of types, classes, objects and inheritance. If you do that, not only might you develop a better idea of what you are actually trying to achieve. You will also develop the vocabulary to ask questions in a way that could be answered with likewise precision. (Like, whether we are looking at a single-threaded “homework” style program, a multithreaded application, or multiple processes communicating with each other — I am still not sure about that one.)
As it is, all we can do is guessing, and drivel in the general direction of what might or might not be a solution for what we understand might be your problem…
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