scrapy-playwright returning nothing but an error - scrapy

Question

I'm learning Scrapy-playwright and it's fighting me. I'm attempting to gather store locations from a site using the CrawlSpider with a rule including a process_request that triggers the request to run through playwright. In my callback def I can print a value found on the page, but not return or yield anything. I've attempted to cache the data into an item, and return/yield a dict, all of which produces the error.
ERROR: Spider must return request, item, or None, got 'Deferred'
I'm stumped.
import re
import scrapy
from scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
from banners.items import StoreItem
from scrapy_playwright.page import PageCoroutine
from scrapy.http.response import Response
def set_playwright_true(request, response):
request.meta["playwright"] = True
request.meta["playwright_include_page"] = True
request.meta["playwright_page_coroutines"] = ('wait_for_selector', 'span.store-name-city')
return request
class StoreSpider(CrawlSpider):
name = "retailer"
allowed_domains = ['retailer.com']
start_urls = ['https://www.retailer.com/store/0000-city-ak']
custom_settings = {
'ROBOTSTXT_OBEY': True ,
#'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': .5 ,
#'CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN': 3 ,
'DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS': {
"http": "scrapy_playwright.handler.ScrapyPlaywrightDownloadHandler" ,
"https": "scrapy_playwright.handler.ScrapyPlaywrightDownloadHandler" ,
} ,
'TWISTED_REACTOR': "twisted.internet.asyncioreactor.AsyncioSelectorReactor" ,
}
rules = (
Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=('directory/ak/anchorage'))),
Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=(r'store/[0-9]+'), deny=(r'store/[0-9]+.+/.+')), callback='parse_item', follow=False, process_request=set_playwright_true),
)
async def parse_item(self, response):
items = []
item = StoreItem()
self.logger.info('***** Start processing ' + response.url + '. *****')
Name = response.css('meta[itemprop=alternateName]').attrib['content'] + ' - ' + response.css('span.store-name-city::text').get()
print(Name)
item['Name'] = Name
item['StoreID'] = response.css('meta[itemprop=storeID]').attrib['content']
item['Address1'] = response.css('span.store-address-line-1::text').get()
item['City'] = response.css('span.store-address-city::text').get()
item['State'] = response.css('span.store-address-state::text').get()
item['Zip'] = response.css('span.store-address-postal::text').get()
item['Phone'] = response.css('div.store-phone::text').get()
item['Latitude'] = response.css('meta[itemprop=latitude]').attrib['content']
item['Longitude'] = response.css('meta[itemprop=longitude]').attrib['content']
items.append(item)
return(items)

Answer 1

Changing parse_item from an async def to a plain def resolved the issue.
async def parse_item(self, response):
changed to
def parse_item(self, response):