(QVC) Hundreds of HSN employees losing their jobs due to QVC Merger

Here’s another article:

https://www.mcall.com/business/mc-biz-qurate-retail-qvc-hsn-bethlehem-fulfillment-center-20181017-story.html

Essentially, in exchange for the job cuts mainly from HSN’s St. Petersburg Florida location, QVC plans to create a new fulfillment center in Bethlehem PA by 2020 to handle both QVC+HSN products.

Here’s a quote from the article:

“Even if Qurate eventually hits 1,500 in Bethlehem, that’s a net loss of 575 jobs at the company.”

Also:

“ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION

While Qurate will add jobs in the Lehigh Valley, it is taking more away from other areas:

Addition: Qurate plans to create 1,200 to 1,500 jobs in Bethlehem once the facility is operational in 2020.

Subtraction: Qurate is eliminating 2,075 jobs, which includes 1,725 across warehouses in Lancaster, Virginia and Tennessee, in addition to 350 in West Chester, Long Island and Florida.”

And, from wiki:

“Qurate Retail Group, formerly known as Liberty Interactive, is an American media conglomerate controlled by company Chairman John C. Malone, who owns a majority of the voting shares.”

That’s the company that owns QVC.

Ugh. Me too. I like HSN’s site, not a fan of QVC’s website.

HSN’s is user-friendlier and I don’t remember ever having any technical issues with them – while QVC’s have had quite a number of tech issues in 2018 alone – including their site stalling just last week when I was trying to buy a cool silicone bottle brush set that David V was presenting

The only thing I want to see the HSN site to improve on is their e-gift card technology. It takes a while for those e-gc emails to arrive

Thanks for sharing the news, Lady Nine M!

I don’t even think it’s possible to order on HSN.com as a Guest!

I wonder if they’re doing something with their technologies so that customers can use 1 account to shop on both sites – and things are messing up? They already have tabs on top of both QVC & HSN sites linking to each other and been sharing sweepstakes anyway (Just thinking out loud.)

LadyNine wrote:

I’ve had trouble with HSN for my last two orders. They keep saying I placed them as a guest and so I can’t review the products. But they’re in my account and with my number on them.