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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Shoppers' changing habits are fueling a major shift in what types of businesses are occupying storefronts. -
Why are people who weren't born 25 years ago snapping up the digital camera of that era? Blame Taylor Swift, trend cycles, childhood nostalgia and smartphone fatigue. -
For decades, immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. could get loans through the Small Business Administration, a core pillar of small-business lending. Not anymore. -
Sky-high gas prices have drivers going out of their way for discounts at the pump. Oil executives warn that even higher prices might be on the horizon. -
Everlane's finances have faltered in recent years. But will the merger alienate Everlane's existing shoppers — or sway droves of Shein fans to trade up? -
Now that the U.S. government must refund most tariffs, Walmart says it might put its refund money toward lowering store prices. Executives say the cost of gas has shoppers increasingly under stress. -
It's the biggest day for America's restaurants, and one of the biggest for flower sales. Despite anxieties over rising gas prices, people are ready to splurge to celebrate. -
After the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, Richard Brown began lining up the paperwork he needed to get his refund. Experts say many businesses may never get their money back. -
What does it take to get a tariff refund? One small business owner kept an audio diary of his quest to get his money back from the U.S. government.
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Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, businesses that paid those levies began requesting refunds Monday.
