Possible to launch a Shopify blog ahead of the store?

I am looking to:

• Blog for nearly a year about a niche, before attaching a store to the site.
• When I do enable the store, I want it to be a shopify store. (Mainly because I like the PCI compliance and overall "hosted-platform" usability of Shopify, think its worth the monthly cost over something like Woocommerce).

So.. can I launch the Shopify "store" as a humble blog starting out in life, and later-on enable the store?

I mean, I guess I can easily do it with CSS, hiding the store links and all. But, will that impact SEO or search-engine-trust down the line when I do enable the store?