Not just record shops, or as LH points out, hobby shops, and bookshops. Junkshops/secondhand shops have virtually gone.
As Oggie says, the rental on shops makes it difficult to make any profits. If you want a shop in any shopping centre, (and that's all there is here!) then you pay some faceless conglomerate huge money, and open the hours that they say you will, forcing you to be an employer, because it is seven-day shopping.

"Virtually gone." Freudian slip, there.