Total Retail Magazine’s Retailer of the Year Awards

You may have seen me post before about Total Retail Magazine and how I dig it because of the insights it gives me as an investor into retail businesses around the country and the C-level executives who make them go (or not). So, I pay attention when TRM hands out their Retailer of the Year awards, because it’s usually someone worth knowing.

For example, the two most recent winners of have been GameStop’s Paul Raines (mytotalretail.com/article/retailer-of-the-year-gamestop) and Bluemercury’s Barry Beck (beautypackaging.com/contents/view_breaking-news/2017-10-06/bluemercurys-barry-beck-receives-top-recognition). [I have been unable to track down the five previous winners of the award.] Slam-dunk choices in retrospect, but more to the point, people worth knowing about and following if you have a stake in the retail economy.

Purportedly, TRM chooses its Retailer of the Year on the basis of an audience survey, weighing the input of retail executives, plus analytic metrics on the entrepreneur’s career and the achievements of the company under their influence. If so, that means that the retailer of the year is someone you might want to put your proverbial money on.