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This is a reductive straw man. People are saying that cities are dead or dying for many more reasons than the appearance of general stores.

The #1 reason is unmentionable

So, are you actually going to state it, or are you going to make us try to guess what you're hinting at?

Don't "vaguepost". Either say something, or don't.

I'm not vagueposting. Everybody knows what I'm talking about (and that's my evidence that I'm right)

Your refusal to elaborate is definitionally vagueposting.

I don't know what you're talking about

Literally no one knows what you’re talking about.