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Natasia Demetriou: There were endless moments during filming where we’d look at each other like, “I will never again be in a big-box store at 4 a.m. watching a fake Doug Jones puppet be wheeled along in a Barbie car —”

Once upon a time, I got my first summer job at Target, when big-box stores still trained you in folding techniques and how to survive the back-to-school rush.

The Costco food court is undoubtedly the big-box retailer’s greatest asset.

She added that big-box stores have the unfair advantage of being able to absorb costs related to the tariffs, while local businesses are already struggling to make ends meet.

Sure, the team took the name the Sacramento River Cats, but their presence in West Sacramento helped spur a whole new wave of development: affordable condos, apartments and townhomes geared toward young workers and, finally, the long-promised restaurants and big-box stores so that all these new residents had places to eat and shop without crossing the river.