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. >> reporter: emily taylor, dollar general's chief merchandising officer, says pop shelf is going afterhoppers with an average household income of $50,000 to $125,000, while the average household income for a dollar general customer is $40,000 or less. today, there are more than pop shelf stand-alone stores across nine states, mostly in the south, like here in hendersonville, tennessee, a suburb of nashville. >> we've announced that we'll get to 150 by the end of this year we're going to double our store count next year. >> pop shelf's plan, unfolding in a challenging market, where inflation is driving up prices and competitors like walmart and target have noticed have been wealthier shoppers becoming more price conscience and thinkin twice about buying more than the necessities. >> this is part of a very big strategy for you and the question is, can you afford for this not to work >> we have a strong history of launching initiatives at dollar general that really are rooted in a test and learn philosophy and so, as we continue to open stores, as we continue to go into new neighborhoods,

. >> democrats are seeing this, emily, and the biden administration is set to be eager to let people like marjorie taylor new gop. is that a smart move because the jet bushes of the gop certainly don't want that to be the case. >> no, and look, there was a couple stories coming out of midterms. one was the force of young people. one was the force of women. another was the force of terrible extremist republican candidates and that helps democrats win and i think it's also a reflection of reality, right? i think that's where the party is going. today, i just thought donald trump tweeted about the january six defendants and that is really just a flag in a virtually singling to the qanon folks, right? >> he's doubling down on this rhetoric, he's not denying this and not a rhetoric. he is doubling down. >> doubling down. remember when the republican party said that that we had a pro business, the c-suite party, let me make it clear, there's no fortune 500 co in this country that is going to sign on to any of that garbage. that's certainly not going to help their party. emily -- tim miller, thank you both for

friend, emily ratajkowski, is also back and joining us. [ cheers and applause and last night i saw a fantastic new movie. it's called "the menu. it is out this weekend it stars ralph fiennes, anya taylord nicholas hoult now, we don't have any of them - [ laughter ] -- here with us in the studio tonight. instead, we have the writers of the movie. [ cheers and applause i -- i can explain hear me out. one of them works here that's a true story. he's a staff writer on "late night with seth meyers," and yet he still found the time to write a movie, and i'm very proud to say i'll be talking to screenwriter seth reiss and will tracy [ cheers and applause the movie's great. they're great. but before we get to that, we don't always have enough time to cover all of the recent news, so here to recap is one of our writers, amber ruffin, in a segment we call "amber says what." ♪ [ cheers and applause >> you guys, things have been crazy. okay first of all, the midterms were last week, and the whole nation was like, what but then the red wave didn't come, and we were like, what the whole thing was bananas. okay so marjorie taylor greene won, and i was like, what then stacey abrams lost, and i was li