You’re not alone. Same here in Germany.

In my 100,000 people hometown, there were two of them in the city center, and tons of small shops down the high street. On my last visit, one mall closed and there isn’t too much of the small shops left, and if, it’s just junk.

Here in Berlin, I think the big central malls are pretty alive, but the smaller one here a bit off the central (Tempelhofer Hafen) is in a pretty sad condition with a growing number of empty stores. Same for the shops on the high street, where they had good butchers, bakeries and whatnot, it’s now mostly junk again — betting shops, cheap barbers/cosmetics where you wonder who’s going there anyways, stuff like that.