If anyone is in the NYC area there's a huge store called Bingers Bargain Bins that stocks returns and overstocked items from Amazon and other retailers. They have a cool model: on Fridays inventory gets restocked and all items are $7, and the price goes down by $1 each day until everything is $1 on Tuesdays (store is closed Wed & Thu).
Those TikTok videos are usually produced or at least approved by the marketing and recruiting arms of those companies, and don't usually match employees' real day to day experience
Where I live near downtown Atlanta I'm also seeing 3-4x the normal bike traffic. We don't have very good bike lanes here so most cyclists are just riding in traffic or on sidewalks.
It feels like Atlanta wants to bike so badly; we just don't have the built infrastructure yet.
I hope this will happen soon. NYC passed a green roof law in Nov. 2019 that requires all new or extensively renovated buildings to install gardens, urban agriculture, or solar on their roofs.
https://www.insider.com/new-york-city-store-sells-overstock-...