Special Occasions, a card and gift shop which also specialised in cake decoration, ceased trading on May 8, following close on the heels of a wig and hair plaiting shop and a travel agent, and leaving more empty shop units in a short stretch of road.
"My husband was not keeping very well and I decided now was the time to close the shop, but the state of the street also had a lot to do with it," said Mrs Berry.
"There are so many empty units it is in a sorry state and pedestrianisation has really hit this end of the town hard. There were plans for this end, but nothing seems to have happened."
Mrs Berry said that people coming in to the town along the Esplanade could quite easily miss the town centre.
"Some sort of signage directing people to the High Street is needed. The only signs are those leading from the multi-storeys at the Mercat.
"And if they could reduce the rates at this end too then half of the shops would be filled."
Iain McGregor, development manager with Fife Council said that the plans which were developed through Kirkcaldy Renaissance were still very much alive and were being built upon to incorporate projects going on throughout the town involving Fife College and Fife Health Board as well as the council.
Proposals put forward for the West end of the High Street involved widening the pavements and planting trees as well as creating a plazza type space at the junction with Nicol Street and bringing in more street furniture.
They also included building more shop units in the former supermarket car park.
"Work has been going on behind the scenes and we have a meeting in the middle of June to discuss the framework for the whole town which has been drawn up," he explained.
"We will also be considering a communications plan to take up the role which was left empty when former town centre project management team Joanna Goddard and Laura Socha left.
"We are very aware that what we are working on is not being given the attention it should be and that gap needs to be filled.
"We can guarantee that all the work which has been done so far on the plans for the town centre is not forgotten about. Far from it, the plans are being extended to include the whole of Kirkcaldy and in a month or two we hope to be able to reveal some of these to the public."