A Tour of One Trade Magazine's Picks for Award-Winning Retail Design

Somehow a press release landed in our inbox announcing that Burger King was named one of the winners of Chain Store Age‘s 2009 Retail Store of the Year Awards (PDF). We’re guessing it’s because we’d covered the fast food giant’s now-award-winning redesign back in October of last year. But anything that leads us to a trade magazine we’d previously never heard of before is well worth it. And while the Burger King re-do is kind of interesting, it’s more of an appeal to browse through the other winners for the magazine’s picks of last year, seeing some nice bits of retail layout at its best, while also learning about things you’d never heard about (e.g.