I would argue this is not as much an e-commerce victory but a greed issue by large property owners (large insurance companies etc.). We see a similar thing her

I would argue this is not as much an e-commerce victory but a greed issue by large property owners (large insurance companies etc.). We see a similar thing here in Switzerland (although less) in city centers like Zürich. There have been too many large multinationals willing to pay insane premiums to have a store on the "Bahnhofstrasse" pushing out all the little stores except the ones that own their own properties. When one of those multinationals leaves or goes under the property is left empty in hopes of finding a new sucker to pay overpriced premiums. Other areas and even the second largest city in Kanton Zürich don't have these issues.