Alina Selyukh
Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR, where she covers retail, low-wage work, global brands and other aspects of the consumer economy. Her work has been recognized by the Gracie Awards, the National Headliner Award and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
She's covered Walmart's change of policy for workers with disabilities, Amazon and Starbucks unionization pushes, the post-pandemic Great Resignation and what it takes to live on minimum wage. Selyukh has shopped the going-out-of-business sales at Bed Bath & Beyond and Party City, delivered groceries with an Instacart gig worker, tracked years of shrinkflation and tariffs at one superstore and spent 24 hours inside Mall of America.
Selyukh joined NPR in 2015 as a tech reporter. Previously she reported for Reuters in New York and Washington, for CNN in Moscow, for ABC News in Nebraska and for Nebraska's PBS station, NET. She launched her career at age 13, freelancing for local newspapers and TV in her home town of Samara in Russia. Selyukh studied journalism and political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Competition, whether from overseas rivals or second-hand goods, has kept the price of furniture relatively low. New tariffs may boost U.S. makers — and raise prices. -
One of the biggest mergers of the year, worth $49 billion, comes just weeks after the Trump administration linked the common painkiller to autism, which the company is fighting. -
Amazon has faced pressure from investors to tighten its finances as it spends big on the AI race. The company says it will cut 14,000 jobs, citing a goal of "reducing bureaucracy, removing layers." -
Sales of non-chocolate candy are growing faster than those of chocolate. With cocoa in shortage, manufacturers are changing pack sizes, adding fillers and dipping candy in "white creme." -
Is this the season of cutbacks or splurges? As we prepare to cover holiday shopping and deals, NPR wants to hear from you, whatever your plans may be. -
The coffee giant plans to cut 900 corporate jobs and shut down about 1% of its stores as the chain's turnaround plan approaches a one-year mark. -
Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts. -
The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards. -
The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.
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American ranchers are raising the fewest cows in decades. Through the price increases, American shoppers have stayed loyal to their love of burgers and steaks — until now.
