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The Company has an agreement with &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;GE Money Bank&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; (GE) under which GE purchases at face value commercial business accounts receivable originated by the Company and services these accounts.  This agreement &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;expires &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in December 2016, unless terminated sooner by the parties.  The Company accounts for these transfers as sales of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;accounts receivable.  When the Company sells its commercial business accounts receivable, it retains certain interests in those receivables, including the funding of a loss reserve and its obligation related to GE's ongoing servicing of the receivables sold.  Any gain or loss on the sale is determined based on the previous carrying amounts of the transferred assets allocated at fair value between the receivables sold and the interests retained. Fair value is based on the present value of expected future cash flows, taking into account the key assumptions of anticipated credit losses, payment rates, late fee rates, GE's servicing costs and the discount rate commensurate with the uncertainty involved.  Due to the short-term nature of the receivables sold, changes to the key assumptions would not materially impact the recorded gain or loss on the sales of receivables or the fair value of the retained interests in the receivables.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Total commercial business accounts receivable sold to GE were &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1.7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;T&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;he Company recognized losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;31&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;each &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;on these &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;receivable &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;sales as SG&amp;amp;A expense, which primarily relates to the fair value of the obligations incurred related to servicing costs that are remitted to GE monthly.  At &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, the fair value of the retained interests was determined based on the present value of expected future cash flows&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and was insignificant&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:TransfersAndServicingOfFinancialAssetsTransfersOfFinancialAssetsSalesPolicy>
  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentPolicyTextBlock id="ID_13731" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Property and Depreciation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - Property is recorded at cost. Costs associated with major additions are capitalized and depreciated. Capital assets are expected to yield future benefits and have useful lives which exceed one year.  The total cost of a capital asset generally includes all applicable sales taxes, delivery costs, installation costs and other appropriate costs incurred by the Company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;including interest &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in the case of self-constructed assets.  Upon disposal, the cost of properties and related accumulated depreciation &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;is&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; removed from the accounts, with gains and losses reflected in SG&amp;amp;A expense &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; the consolidated statements of earnings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Property consists of land, buildings and building improvements, eq&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;uipment and construction in progr&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ess.  Buildings and building improvements includes owned buildings as well as buildings under capital lease and leasehold improvements.  Equipment primarily includes store racking and displays, computer hardware and software, forklifts, vehicles and other store equipment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Depreciation is provided over the estimated useful lives of the depreciable assets. Assets are depreciated using the straight-line method. Leasehold improvements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and assets under capital lease&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; are depreciated over the shorter of their estimated useful lives or the term of the related lease, which may include one or more option renewal periods where failure to exercise such options would result in an economic penalty in such amount that renewal appears, at the inception of the lease, to be reasonably assured.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;During the term of a lease, if leasehold improvements are placed in service significantly after the inception of the lease, the Company depreciates these leasehold improvements over the shorter of the useful life of the leasehold assets or a term that includes lease renewal periods deemed to be reasonably assured at the time the leasehold improvements are placed into service.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  The amortization of these assets is in&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;cluded in depreciation expense i&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;n the consolidated financial statements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentPolicyTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:LeasePolicyTextBlock id="ID_13734" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Leases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - For lease agreements that provide for escalating rent payments or free-rent occupancy periods, the Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the non-cancel&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;l&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;able lease term and option renewal periods where failure to exercise such options would result in an economic penalty in such amount that renewal appears, at the inception of the lease, to be reasonably assured.  The lease term commences on the date that the Company takes possession of or controls the physical use of the property.  Deferred rent is included in other liabilities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;(non&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;current) on the consolidated balance sheets.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;When the Company renegotiates and amends a lease to extend the non-cancellable lease term prior to the date at which it would have been required to exercise or decline a term extension option, the amendment is treated as a new lease&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; The new lease&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; begins on the date the lease amendment is entered into and ends on the last date of the non-cancellable lease term, as adjusted to include any option renewal periods where failure to exercise such options would result in an economic penalty in such amount that renewal appears, at the inception of the lease amendment, to be reasonably assured.  The new lease is classified as operating or capital under the authoritative guidance through use of assumptions regarding residual value, economic life, incremental borrowing rate, and fair value of the leased asset(s) as of the date of the amendment.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:LeasePolicyTextBlock>
  <low:PayablesTrackingSystemPolicyTextBlock id="ID_13735" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Accounts Payable - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;T&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;he Company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; has an &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;agreement with a third party to provide an accounts payable tracking system which facilitates participating suppliers' ability to finance payment obligations from the Company with designated third-party financial institutions.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Participating suppliers may, at their sole discretion, make offers to finance one or more payment obligations of the Company prior to their scheduled due dates at a discounted price to participating financial institutions.&amp;#160; The Company's goal in entering into this arrangement is to capture overall supply chain savings, in the form of pricing, payment terms or vendor funding, created by facilitating suppliers' ability to finance payment obligations at more favorable discount rates, while providing them with greater working capital flexibility.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company's obligations to its suppliers, including amounts due and scheduled payment dates, are not impacted by suppliers' decisions to finance amounts under this arrangement.&amp;#160; However, the Company's right to offset balances due from suppliers against payment obligations is restricted by this arrangement for those payment obligations that have been financed by suppliers.&amp;#160; As of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;754&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;645&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million, respectively, of the Company's outstanding payment obligations had been placed on the accounts payable tracking system, and participating suppliers had financed $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;431&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;476&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, respectively, of those payment obligations to partic&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ipating financial institutions.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</low:PayablesTrackingSystemPolicyTextBlock>
  <low:ScheduleOfOtherCurrentLiabilitiesTableTextBlock id="ID_13736" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Other Current Liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - Other current liabilities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;on the consolidated balance sheets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;consist of:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Self-insurance liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; 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  <low:ReceivablesCreditCardThirdPartyIntermediariesArrangementsPolicy id="ID_15024" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Sales generated through the Company's proprietary credit cards are not reflected in receivables.  Under an agreement with GE, credit is extended directly to customers by GE.  All credit&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;program&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;related services are performed and controlled directly by GE.  The Company has the option, but no obligation, to purchase the receivables at the end of the agreement in December 2016.  Tender costs, including amounts associated with accepting the Company's proprietary credit cards, are &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;included&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; in SG&amp;amp;A expense in the consolidated statements of earnings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The total portfolio of receivables held by GE, including both receivables originated by GE from the Company's proprietary credit cards and commercial business accounts receivable originated by the Company and sold to GE, approximated $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;6.0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; billion at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;5.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</low:ReceivablesCreditCardThirdPartyIntermediariesArrangementsPolicy>
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A potential impairment has occurred for long-lived assets held-for-use if projected future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposition of the assets are less than the carrying amounts of the assets.  An impairment loss is recorded for long-lived assets held-for-use when the carrying amount of the asset is not recoverable and exceeds its fair value.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Excess properties that are expected to be sold within the next 12 months and meet the other relevant held-for-sale criteria are classified as long-lived assets held-for-sale.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Excess properties consist primarily of retail outparcels and property associated with relocated or closed locations.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;An impairment loss is recorded for long-lived assets held-for-sale when the carrying amount of the asset exceeds its fair value less cost to sell.  A long-lived asset is not depreciated while it is classified as held-for-sale. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;For long-lived assets to be abandoned, the Company considers the asset to be disposed of when it ceases to be used.  Until it ceases to be used, the Company continues to classify the asset as held-for-use and tests for potential impairment accordingly.  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The Company recorded long-lived asset impairment of $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;71&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million during 2010, including $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;36&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for operating &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;26&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for excess properties classified as held-for-use and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, including costs to sell, for excess properties classified as held-for-sale.  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These decisions were the result of the Company's realignment of its store operations structure and its &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;continued &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;efforts to focus resources in a manner that would generate the greatest shareholder value.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Total &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;impairment losses &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for locations identified for closure &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; relate to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;these store closings.    &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The net carrying amount of excess properties that do not meet the held-for-sale criteria i&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s included in other assets (non&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;current) on the consolidated balance sheets and totaled $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;286&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;239&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at February 3, 2012 and January 28, 2011, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:ImpairmentOrDisposalOfLongLivedAssetsPolicyTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:SignificantAccountingPoliciesTextBlock id="ID_15717" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;NOTE&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Summary of Significant Accounting Policies&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Lowe's Companies, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) is the world's second-largest home improvement retailer and operated &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;745&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;stores &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in the United States&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; Canada&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and Mexico&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  Below are those accounting policies considered by the Company to be significant.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Fiscal Year - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Company's fiscal year ends on the Friday nearest the end of January.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Fiscal year 2011 contained 53 weeks, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;fiscal years &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010 and 2009 each &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;contained 52 weeks. All references herein for the years &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; represent the fiscal years ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 29, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Principles of Consolidation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned or controlled operating subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Foreign Currency&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The functional currencies of the Company's international subsidiaries are&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; generally&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; the local currencies of the countries in which the subsidiaries are located. Foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars using the exchange rates in effect at the consolidated balance sheet date. Results of operations and cash flows are translated using the average exchange rates throughout the period. The effect of exchange rate fluctuations on translation of assets and liabilities is included as a component of shareholders' equity in accumulated other comprehensive &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;income &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;(loss). Gains and losses from foreign currency transactions, which are included in selling, general and administrative (SG&amp;amp;A) expense, have not been significant.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Use of Estimates &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;- The preparation of the Company's financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, sales and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities.  The Company bases these estimates on historical results and various other assumptions believed to be reasonable, all of which form the basis for making estimates concerning the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily available from other sources.  Actual results may differ from these estimates.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Cash and Cash Equivalents&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - Cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand, demand deposits and short-term investments with original maturities of three months or less when purchased.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Cash and cash equivalents are carried at amortized cost on the consolidated balance sheets.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The majority of payments due from financial institutions for the settlement of credit card and debit card transactions process within two business days and are, therefore, classified as cash and cash equivalents. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Investments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;As of February 3, 2012, investments consisted primarily of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;money market funds, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;municipal &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;obligations, municipal &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;floating rate &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and mutual funds.  The Company classifies as investments restricted balances pledged as collateral for the Company's extended protection plan program and for a portion of the Company's casualty insurance and Installed Sales program liabilities.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Investments, exclusive of cash equivalents, with a stated maturity date of one year or less from the balance sheet date or that are expected to be used in current operations, are classified as short-term investments. The Company's trading securities are also classified as short-term investments.  All other investmen&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ts are classified as long-term.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company maintains investment securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; that were previously held&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; in conjunction with certain employee benefit plans that are classified as trading securities.  These securities are carried at fair value with unrealized gains and losses included in SG&amp;amp;A expense.  All other investment securities are classified as available-for-sale and are carried at fair value with unrealized gains and losses included in accumulated other comprehensive income &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;(loss) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in shareholders' equity.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Merchandise Inventory&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - Inventory is stated at the lower of cost or market using the first-in, first-out method of inventory accounting. The cost of inventory also includes certain costs associated with the preparation of inventory for resale, including distribution center costs, and is net of vendor funds. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company records an inventory reserve for the anticipated loss associated with selling inventories below cost.  This reserve is based on management's current knowledge with respect to inventory levels, sales trends and historical experience. Management does not believe the Company's merchandise inventories are subject to significant risk of obsolescence in the near term, and management has the ability to adjust purchasing practices based on anticipated sales trends and general economic conditions. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; However, changes in consumer purchasing patterns could result in the need for additional reserves.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Company also records an inventory reserve for the estimated shrinkage between physical inventories.  This reserve is based primarily on actual shrink results from previous physical inventories.  Changes in the estimated shrink reserve may be necessary based on the timing and results of physical inventories.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company receives funds from vendors in the normal course of business, principally as a result of purchase volumes, sales, early payments or promotions of vendors' products, which generally do not represent the reimbursement of specific, incremental and identifiable costs incurred &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;by the Company &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;to sell the vendor's product.  These funds are treated as a reduction in the cost of inventory as the amounts are accrued, and are recognized as a reduction of cost of sales when the inventory is sold.  The Company develops accrual rates for vendor funds based on the provisions of the agreements in place.  Due to the complexity and diversity of the individual vendor agreements, the Company performs analyses and reviews historical trends throughout the year and confirms actual amounts with &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;select &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;vendors to ensure the amounts earned are appropriately recorded.  Amounts accrued throughout the year could be impacted if actual purchase volumes differ from projected annual purchase volumes, especially in the case of programs that provide for increased funding when graduated purchase volumes are met.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Derivative&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Financial Instruments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company occasionally utilizes derivative financial instruments to manage certain business risks.  However, the amounts were not material to the Company's consolidated financial statements in any of the years presented.  The Company does not use derivative financial instruments for trading purposes.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Credit Programs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The majority of the Company's accounts receivable arises from sales of goods and services to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;c&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ommercial &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;b&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;usiness &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;c&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ustomers. The Company has an agreement with &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;GE Money Bank&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; (GE) under which GE purchases at face value commercial business accounts receivable originated by the Company and services these accounts.  This agreement &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;expires &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in December 2016, unless terminated sooner by the parties.  The Company accounts for these transfers as sales of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;accounts receivable.  When the Company sells its commercial business accounts receivable, it retains certain interests in those receivables, including the funding of a loss reserve and its obligation related to GE's ongoing servicing of the receivables sold.  Any gain or loss on the sale is determined based on the previous carrying amounts of the transferred assets allocated at fair value between the receivables sold and the interests retained. Fair value is based on the present value of expected future cash flows, taking into account the key assumptions of anticipated credit losses, payment rates, late fee rates, GE's servicing costs and the discount rate commensurate with the uncertainty involved.  Due to the short-term nature of the receivables sold, changes to the key assumptions would not materially impact the recorded gain or loss on the sales of receivables or the fair value of the retained interests in the receivables.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Total commercial business accounts receivable sold to GE were &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1.7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;T&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;he Company recognized losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;31&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;each &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;on these &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;receivable &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;sales as SG&amp;amp;A expense, which primarily relates to the fair value of the obligations incurred related to servicing costs that are remitted to GE monthly.  At &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, the fair value of the retained interests was determined based on the present value of expected future cash flows&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and was insignificant&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Sales generated through the Company's proprietary credit cards are not reflected in receivables.  Under an agreement with GE, credit is extended directly to customers by GE.  All credit&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;program&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;related services are performed and controlled directly by GE.  The Company has the option, but no obligation, to purchase the receivables at the end of the agreement in December 2016.  Tender costs, including amounts associated with accepting the Company's proprietary credit cards, are &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;included&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; in SG&amp;amp;A expense in the consolidated statements of earnings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The total portfolio of receivables held by GE, including both receivables originated by GE from the Company's proprietary credit cards and commercial business accounts receivable originated by the Company and sold to GE, approximated $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;6.0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; billion at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;5.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;billion at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Property and Depreciation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - Property is recorded at cost. Costs associated with major additions are capitalized and depreciated. Capital assets are expected to yield future benefits and have useful lives which exceed one year.  The total cost of a capital asset generally includes all applicable sales taxes, delivery costs, installation costs and other appropriate costs incurred by the Company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;including interest &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in the case of self-constructed assets.  Upon disposal, the cost of properties and related accumulated depreciation &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;is&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; removed from the accounts, with gains and losses reflected in SG&amp;amp;A expense &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; the consolidated statements of earnings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Property consists of land, buildings and building improvements, eq&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;uipment and construction in progr&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ess.  Buildings and building improvements includes owned buildings as well as buildings under capital lease and leasehold improvements.  Equipment primarily includes store racking and displays, computer hardware and software, forklifts, vehicles and other store equipment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Depreciation is provided over the estimated useful lives of the depreciable assets. Assets are depreciated using the straight-line method. Leasehold improvements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and assets under capital lease&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; are depreciated over the shorter of their estimated useful lives or the term of the related lease, which may include one or more option renewal periods where failure to exercise such options would result in an economic penalty in such amount that renewal appears, at the inception of the lease, to be reasonably assured.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;During the term of a lease, if leasehold improvements are placed in service significantly after the inception of the lease, the Company depreciates these leasehold improvements over the shorter of the useful life of the leasehold assets or a term that includes lease renewal periods deemed to be reasonably assured at the time the leasehold improvements are placed into service.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  The amortization of these assets is in&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;cluded in depreciation expense i&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;n the consolidated financial statements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Long-Lived Asset Impairment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;/Exit Activities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The carrying amounts of long-lived assets are reviewed whenever certain events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts may not be recoverable.  A potential impairment has occurred for long-lived assets held-for-use if projected future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposition of the assets are less than the carrying amounts of the assets.  An impairment loss is recorded for long-lived assets held-for-use when the carrying amount of the asset is not recoverable and exceeds its fair value.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Excess properties that are expected to be sold within the next 12 months and meet the other relevant held-for-sale criteria are classified as long-lived assets held-for-sale.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Excess properties consist primarily of retail outparcels and property associated with relocated or closed locations.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;An impairment loss is recorded for long-lived assets held-for-sale when the carrying amount of the asset exceeds its fair value less cost to sell.  A long-lived asset is not depreciated while it is classified as held-for-sale. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;For long-lived assets to be abandoned, the Company considers the asset to be disposed of when it ceases to be used.  Until it ceases to be used, the Company continues to classify the asset as held-for-use and tests for potential impairment accordingly.  If the Company commits to a plan to abandon a long-lived asset before the end of its previously estimated useful life, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;its depreciable life is re-evaluated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company recorded impairment losses of $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;388&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in 2011, including $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;40&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for operating locations, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;269&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for locations identified for closure, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;78&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for exces&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s properties classified as held-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;use and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, including costs to sell,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;excess &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;properties classified as held-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;sale.  The Company recorded long-lived asset impairment of $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;71&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million during 2010, including $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;36&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for operating &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;26&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for excess properties classified as held-for-use and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, including costs to sell, for excess properties classified as held-for-sale.  The Company recorded long-lived asset impairment losses of $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;114&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million during 2009, including $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;53&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for operating locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;40&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million for excess properties classified as held-for-use and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;21&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, including costs to sell, for excess properties classified as held-for-sale. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; Impairment losses are included in SG&amp;amp;A expense&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; in the consolidated statements of earnings&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Fair value measurements associated with long-lived asset impairments are further described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;During &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, the Company &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;closed&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; 27 underperforming stores across the United States.  These decisions were the result of the Company's realignment of its store operations structure and its &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;continued &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;efforts to focus resources in a manner that would generate the greatest shareholder value.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Total &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;impairment losses &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for locations identified for closure &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; relate to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;these store closings.    &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The net carrying amount of excess properties that do not meet the held-for-sale criteria i&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s included in other assets (non&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;current) on the consolidated balance sheets and totaled $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;286&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;239&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at February 3, 2012 and January 28, 2011, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;When locations under operating leases are closed, a liability is recognized for the fair value of future contractual obligations, including future minimum lease payments, property taxes, utilities, common area maintenance and other ongoing expenses, net of estimated sublease income and other recoverable items.  When the Company commits to an exit plan and communicates that plan to affected employees, a liability is recognized in connection with one-time employee termination benefits.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Subsequent changes to the liabilities, including a change resulting from a revision to either the timing or the amount of estimated cash flows, are recognized in the period of change.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Expenses associated with exit activities are included in SG&amp;amp;A expense in the consolidated statement of earnings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Equity Method Investments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Company's investments in certain unconsolidated entities are accounted for under the equity method.  The balance &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;of&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; th&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ese investments is included in other a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ssets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; (noncurrent)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.  The balance is increased to reflect the Company's capital contributions and equity in earnings of the investees&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  The balance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; is decreased to reflect its equity in losses of the investees and for distributions received that &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; not in excess of the carrying amount of the investments.  Equity in earnings and losses of the investees &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;have been &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;immaterial and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;included in SG&amp;amp;A expense.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Leases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - For lease agreements that provide for escalating rent payments or free-rent occupancy periods, the Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the non-cancel&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;l&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;able lease term and option renewal periods where failure to exercise such options would result in an economic penalty in such amount that renewal appears, at the inception of the lease, to be reasonably assured.  The lease term commences on the date that the Company takes possession of or controls the physical use of the property.  Deferred rent is included in other liabilities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;(non&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;current) on the consolidated balance sheets.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;When the Company renegotiates and amends a lease to extend the non-cancellable lease term prior to the date at which it would have been required to exercise or decline a term extension option, the amendment is treated as a new lease&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; The new lease&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; begins on the date the lease amendment is entered into and ends on the last date of the non-cancellable lease term, as adjusted to include any option renewal periods where failure to exercise such options would result in an economic penalty in such amount that renewal appears, at the inception of the lease amendment, to be reasonably assured.  The new lease is classified as operating or capital under the authoritative guidance through use of assumptions regarding residual value, economic life, incremental borrowing rate, and fair value of the leased asset(s) as of the date of the amendment.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Accounts Payable - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;T&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;he Company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; has an &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;agreement with a third party to provide an accounts payable tracking system which facilitates participating suppliers' ability to finance payment obligations from the Company with designated third-party financial institutions.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Participating suppliers may, at their sole discretion, make offers to finance one or more payment obligations of the Company prior to their scheduled due dates at a discounted price to participating financial institutions.&amp;#160; The Company's goal in entering into this arrangement is to capture overall supply chain savings, in the form of pricing, payment terms or vendor funding, created by facilitating suppliers' ability to finance payment obligations at more favorable discount rates, while providing them with greater working capital flexibility.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company's obligations to its suppliers, including amounts due and scheduled payment dates, are not impacted by suppliers' decisions to finance amounts under this arrangement.&amp;#160; However, the Company's right to offset balances due from suppliers against payment obligations is restricted by this arrangement for those payment obligations that have been financed by suppliers.&amp;#160; As of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;754&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;645&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million, respectively, of the Company's outstanding payment obligations had been placed on the accounts payable tracking system, and participating suppliers had financed $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;431&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;476&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, respectively, of those payment obligations to partic&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ipating financial institutions.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Other Current Liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - Other current liabilities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;on the consolidated balance sheets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;consist of:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; 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text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 158&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 112&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrued interest&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 126&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 115&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrued property taxes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 102&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 113&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Other&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 655&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 559&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 1,533&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 1,358&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Self-Insurance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company is self-insured for certain losses relating to workers' compensation, automobile, property, and general and product liability claims.  The Company has stop-loss coverage to limit the exposure arising from these claims.  The Company is also self-insured for certain losses relating to extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and medical and dental claims.  Self-insurance claims filed and claims incurred but not reported are accrued based upon management's estimates of the discounted ultimate cost for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;self-insured&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; claims incurred using actuarial assumptions followed in the insurance industry and historical experience.  Although management believes it has the ability to reasonably estimate losses related to claims, it is possible that actual results could differ from recorded self-insurance liabilities.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;provides &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;surety bonds issued by insurance companies to secure payment of workers' compensation liabilities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;as required &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;certain &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;states where the Company is self-insured.  Outstanding surety &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;bonds&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; relating to self-insurance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;214&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;235&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;at&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Income Taxes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company establishes deferred income tax assets and liabilities for temporary differences between the tax and financial accounting bases of assets and liabilities.  The tax effects of such differences are reflected in the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;consolidated &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;balance sheet&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; at the enacted tax rates expected to be in effect when the differences reverse.  A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce the carrying amount of deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not that all or a portion of the asset will not be realized.  The tax balances and income tax expense recognized by the Company are based on management's interpretation of the tax statutes of multiple jurisdictions.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company establishes a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; liability&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; for tax positions for which there is uncertainty as to whether or not the position will be ultimately sustained.  The Company includes interest related to tax issues as part of net interest &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;on the consolidated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; financial statements.  The Company records any applicable penalties related to tax issues within the income tax provision.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Revenue Recognition - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Company recognizes revenues, net of sales tax, when sales transactions occur and customers take possession of the merchandise. A provision for anticipated merchandise returns is provided through a reduction of sales and cost of sales in the period that the related sales are recorded.  Revenues from product installation services are recognized when the installation is completed.  Deferred revenues associated with amounts received for which customers have not yet taken possession of merchandise or for which installation has not yet been completed &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;430&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;nd $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;371&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Revenues from stored&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;value cards, which include gift cards and returned merchandise credits, are deferred and recognized when the cards are redeemed.  The liability associated with outstanding stored&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;value car&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ds &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;was $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;371&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;336&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively, and these amounts are included in deferred revenue&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; o&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;n the consolidated balance sheets.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Company recognizes income from unredeemed stored&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;value cards at the point at which redemption becomes remote.&amp;#160; The Company's stored&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;value cards have no expiration date or dormancy fees.  Therefore, to determine when redemption is remote, the Company analyzes an aging of the unredeemed cards b&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ased on the date of last stored-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;value card use.&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Protection Plans&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; sells separately-priced extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;contracts under a Lowe's-branded program for which the Company is ultimately self-insured.  The Company recognizes revenue from extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;sales on a straight-line basis over the respective contract term.  Extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;contract terms primarily range from one to four years from the date of purchase or the end of the manufacturer's warranty, as applicable.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Changes in deferred revenue for extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;contracts are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Deferred revenue - extended protection plans,  beginning of year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 631&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 549&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Additions to deferred revenue&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 264&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 253&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Deferred revenue recognized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (191)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (171)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Deferred revenue - extended protection plans, end of year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 704&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 631&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Incremental direct acquisition costs associated with the sale of extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plans&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; are also deferred and recognized as expense on a straight-line basis over the respective contract term. Deferred costs associated with extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; contracts were &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;145&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;166&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively.  The Company's extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; deferred costs are included in other assets (noncurrent) on the consolidated balance sheets.  All other costs, such as costs of services performed under the contract, general and administrative expenses and advertising expenses are expensed as incurred.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The liability for extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; claims incurred is included in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;other current&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  Changes in the liability for extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; claims are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Liability for extended protection plan claims, beginning of year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 20&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 23&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrual for claims incurred &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 90&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 80&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Claim payments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (89)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (83)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Liability for extended protection plan claims, end of year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 21&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 20&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Cost of Sales and Selling, General and Administrative Expenses - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The following lists the primary costs classified in each major expense category:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Cost of Sales&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Total cost of products sold, including:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:54px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Purchase costs, net of vendor funds;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:54px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Freight expenses associated with moving merchandise inventories from vendors to retail stores;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:54px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs associated with operating the Company's distribution network, including payroll and benefit costs and occupancy costs;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs of installation services provided;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs associated with delivery of products directly from vendors to customers by third parties;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs associated with inventory shrinkage and obsolescence.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Selling, General and Administrative&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Payroll and benefit costs for retail and corporate employees;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Occupancy costs of retail and corporate facilities;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Advertising;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs associated with delivery of products from stores to customers;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Third-party, in-store service costs;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Tender costs, including bank charges, costs associated with credit card interchange fees and amounts associated with accepting the Company's proprietary credit cards;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs associated with self-insured plans, and premium costs for stop-loss coverage and fully insured plans;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Long-lived asset impairment &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;es and gains/losses on disposal of assets;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Other administrative costs, such as supplies, and travel and entertainment.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:10pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Advertising &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;- Costs associated with advertising are charged to expense as incurred.  Advertising expenses were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;803&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;790&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;750&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:10pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Shipping and Handling Costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company includes shipping and handling costs relating to the delivery of products directly from vendors to customers by third parties in cost of sales.  Shipping and handling costs, which include third-party delivery costs, salaries, and vehicle operations expenses relating to the delivery of products from stores to customers, are classified as SG&amp;amp;A expense.  Shipping and handling costs included in SG&amp;amp;A expense were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;461&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;431&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;371&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:10pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Store Opening Costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - Costs of opening new or relocated retail stores, which include payroll and supply costs incurred prior to store opening and grand opening advertising costs, are charged to expense as incurred.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Comprehensive Income&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company reports comprehensive income in its consolidated statements of shareholders' equity.  Comprehensive income represents changes in shareholders' equity from non-owner sources and is comprised primarily of net earnings plus or minus unrealized gains or losses on available-for-sale securities, as well as foreign currency translation adjustments.  Net unrealized gains, net of tax, on available-for-sale securities classified in accumulated other comprehensive income on the consolidated balance sheets were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at February 3, 2012 and insignificant at January 28, 2011.  Foreign currency translation gains, net of tax, classified in accumulated other comprehensive income were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;45&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;53&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at February 3, 2012 and January 28, 2011, respectively.  The reclassification adjustments for gains/losses included in net earnings were not significant for any of the periods presented.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Recent Accounting Pronouncements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;In May 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued authoritative guidance that amends the existing requirements for fair value measurement and disclosure.  The guidance expands the disclosure requirements around fair value measurements categorized in Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy and requires disclosure of the level in the fair value hierarchy of items that are not measured at fair value in the statement of financial position but whose fair value must be disclosed.  It also clarifies and expands upon existing requirements for measurement of the fair value of financial assets and liabilities as well as instruments classified in shareholders' equity.   The guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011.  The Company does not expect the adoption of the guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;In June 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance that amends the presentation requirements for comprehensive income in financial statements. The guidance requires entities to report components of comprehensive income either as part of a single continuous statement of comprehensive income that would combine the components of net income and other comprehensive income, or in a separate, but consecutive, statement following the statement of income.  Subsequently, in December, 2011, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the FASB issued authoritative guidance that indefinitely defers certain provisions of the guidance issued in June 2011.  The guidance defers the requirement to present reclassifications of other comprehensive income on the face of the income statement&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  The guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December&amp;#160;15, 2011, and is to be applied retrospectively. The adoption of this guidance will impact the presentation of comprehensive income, but will not have an impact on the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;In September 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance that amends the existing requirements for goodwill impairment testing. The guidance gives companies the option to make a qualitative evaluation about the likelihood of goodwill impairment at their annual assessment date before calculating the fair value of a reporting unit. Companies will be required to perform the two-step impairment test only if, based on the qualitative evaluation, it concludes that the fair value of a reporting unit is more likely than not less than its carrying value. Companies will continue to be required to determine qualitatively whether an interim goodwill impairment test is required. The guidance is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December&amp;#160;15, 2011, with early adoption permitted. The adoption of the guidance will impact the Company's process for determining if a goodwill impairment test is necessary, but will not have an impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Segment Information&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company's home improvement retail &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;operations &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;represent a single operating segment based on the way the Company manages its business.  Operating decisions are made at the Company level in order to maintain a consistent retail store presentation.  The Company's home improvement retail stores sell similar products and services, use similar processes to sell those products and services, and sell their products and services to similar classes of customers. The amounts of long-lived assets and net sales outside of the U.S. were not significant for any of the periods presented.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Reclassifications&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to current classifications.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Certain amounts within the investing and financing activities sections of the consolidated statements of cash flows have been reclassified, including net contributions to equity method investments, which is now presented as a separate line item.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:10pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:SignificantAccountingPoliciesTextBlock>
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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Deferred revenue - extended protection plans,  beginning of year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 631&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 549&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Additions to deferred revenue&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 264&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 253&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Deferred revenue recognized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (191)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (171)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Deferred revenue - extended protection plans, end of year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 704&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 631&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</low:ChangesInDeferredRevenuefromExtendedWarrantySalesTextBlock>
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  <low:DeferredCostsAssociatedWithExtendedWarrantyContracts id="ID_13798_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Jan28_2011" unitRef="USD">166000000</low:DeferredCostsAssociatedWithExtendedWarrantyContracts>
  <low:DeferredCostsAssociatedWithExtendedWarrantyContracts id="ID_15505_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Feb03_2012" unitRef="USD">145000000</low:DeferredCostsAssociatedWithExtendedWarrantyContracts>
  <low:ChangesInLiabilityForExtendedWarrantyClaimsTextBlock id="ID_15506" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 23&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 400px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:400px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrual for claims incurred &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 90&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; 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  <us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrual id="ID_15507_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Jan28_2011" unitRef="USD">20000000</us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrual>
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  <us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrualPayments id="ID_15509_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012" unitRef="USD">89000000</us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrualPayments>
  <us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrual id="ID_15510_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Feb03_2012" unitRef="USD">21000000</us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrual>
  <us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrual id="ID_15511_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Jan29_2010" unitRef="USD">23000000</us-gaap:ExtendedProductWarrantyAccrual>
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  <us-gaap:SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpensesPolicyTextBlock id="ID_15843" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Selling, General and Administrative&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Payroll and benefit costs for retail and corporate employees;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Occupancy costs of retail and corporate facilities;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Advertising;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs associated with delivery of products from stores to customers;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Third-party, in-store service costs;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Tender costs, including bank charges, costs associated with credit card interchange fees and amounts associated with accepting the Company's proprietary credit cards;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Costs associated with self-insured plans, and premium costs for stop-loss coverage and fully insured plans;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Long-lived asset impairment &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;es and gains/losses on disposal of assets;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:18px;list-style:square;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Other administrative costs, such as supplies, and travel and entertainment.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</us-gaap:SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpensesPolicyTextBlock>
  <low:SegmentReportingPolicyTextBlock id="ID_15823" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Segment Information&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company's home improvement retail &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;operations &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;represent a single operating segment based on the way the Company manages its business.  Operating decisions are made at the Company level in order to maintain a consistent retail store presentation.  The Company's home improvement retail stores sell similar products and services, use similar processes to sell those products and services, and sell their products and services to similar classes of customers. The amounts of long-lived assets and net sales outside of the U.S. were not significant for any of the periods presented.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</low:SegmentReportingPolicyTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:AdvertisingCostPolicyExpensedAdvertisingCost id="ID_15818" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:10pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Advertising &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;- Costs associated with advertising are charged to expense as incurred.  Advertising expenses were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;803&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;790&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;750&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:AdvertisingCostPolicyExpensedAdvertisingCost>
  <us-gaap:ShippingAndHandlingCostPolicyTextBlock id="ID_15819" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:10pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Shipping and Handling Costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company includes shipping and handling costs relating to the delivery of products directly from vendors to customers by third parties in cost of sales.  Shipping and handling costs, which include third-party delivery costs, salaries, and vehicle operations expenses relating to the delivery of products from stores to customers, are classified as SG&amp;amp;A expense.  Shipping and handling costs included in SG&amp;amp;A expense were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;461&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;431&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;371&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:ShippingAndHandlingCostPolicyTextBlock>
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  <low:ComprehensiveIncomePolicyTextBlock id="ID_15821" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Comprehensive Income&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; - The Company reports comprehensive income in its consolidated statements of shareholders' equity.  Comprehensive income represents changes in shareholders' equity from non-owner sources and is comprised primarily of net earnings plus or minus unrealized gains or losses on available-for-sale securities, as well as foreign currency translation adjustments.  Net unrealized gains, net of tax, on available-for-sale securities classified in accumulated other comprehensive income on the consolidated balance sheets were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at February 3, 2012 and insignificant at January 28, 2011.  Foreign currency translation gains, net of tax, classified in accumulated other comprehensive income were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;45&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;53&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at February 3, 2012 and January 28, 2011, respectively.  The reclassification adjustments for gains/losses included in net earnings were not significant for any of the periods presented.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</low:ComprehensiveIncomePolicyTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:DescriptionOfNewAccountingPronouncementsNotYetAdopted id="ID_15822" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Recent Accounting Pronouncements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;In May 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued authoritative guidance that amends the existing requirements for fair value measurement and disclosure.  The guidance expands the disclosure requirements around fair value measurements categorized in Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy and requires disclosure of the level in the fair value hierarchy of items that are not measured at fair value in the statement of financial position but whose fair value must be disclosed.  It also clarifies and expands upon existing requirements for measurement of the fair value of financial assets and liabilities as well as instruments classified in shareholders' equity.   The guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011.  The Company does not expect the adoption of the guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;In June 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance that amends the presentation requirements for comprehensive income in financial statements. The guidance requires entities to report components of comprehensive income either as part of a single continuous statement of comprehensive income that would combine the components of net income and other comprehensive income, or in a separate, but consecutive, statement following the statement of income.  Subsequently, in December, 2011, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the FASB issued authoritative guidance that indefinitely defers certain provisions of the guidance issued in June 2011.  The guidance defers the requirement to present reclassifications of other comprehensive income on the face of the income statement&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  The guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December&amp;#160;15, 2011, and is to be applied retrospectively. The adoption of this guidance will impact the presentation of comprehensive income, but will not have an impact on the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;In September 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance that amends the existing requirements for goodwill impairment testing. The guidance gives companies the option to make a qualitative evaluation about the likelihood of goodwill impairment at their annual assessment date before calculating the fair value of a reporting unit. Companies will be required to perform the two-step impairment test only if, based on the qualitative evaluation, it concludes that the fair value of a reporting unit is more likely than not less than its carrying value. Companies will continue to be required to determine qualitatively whether an interim goodwill impairment test is required. The guidance is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December&amp;#160;15, 2011, with early adoption permitted. The adoption of the guidance will impact the Company's process for determining if a goodwill impairment test is necessary, but will not have an impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:DescriptionOfNewAccountingPronouncementsNotYetAdopted>
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  <us-gaap:FairValueDisclosuresTextBlock id="ID_15202" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;NOTE&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;: Fair Value Measurements and Financial Instruments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;F&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;air value &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;is &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.  The authoritative guidance for fair value measurements establishes a three-level hierarchy, which encourages an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.  The three levels of the hierarchy are defined as follows: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:36px;list-style:disc;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Level 1 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;- &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;inputs to the valuation techniques that are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:36px;list-style:disc;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Level 2 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;- &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;inputs to the valuation techniques that are other than quoted prices but are observable for the assets or liabilities, either directly or indirectly&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-left:36px;list-style:disc;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Level 3 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;- &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;inputs to the valuation techniques that are unobservable for the assets or liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Assets and Liabilities that are Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The following tables present the Company's financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, classified by fair value hierarchy:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6"  style="width: 360px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:360px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 62px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 120px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:120px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 120px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:120px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Significant Other Observable
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153&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 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-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;W&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;hen available, quoted prices were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; used to determine fair value.  When quoted prices in active markets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; available, investments &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.  When quoted prices in active markets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; not available, fair values &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; determined using pricing models&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and the inputs to those pricing models &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; based on observable market inputs.  The inputs to the pricing models &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;we&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;re typically benchmark yields, reported trades, broker-dealer quotes, issuer spreads and benchmark securities, among others. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Assets and Liabilities that are Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;For&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; the year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ended February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, the Company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;'s only &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;significant assets or liabilities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;measured &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;at fair value on a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; non&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;recurring basis subsequent to their initial r&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ecognition&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;certain assets subject&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; to long-lived asset impairment.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Company estimated the fair values of assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; subject to long-lived asset impairment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; based on the Company's own judgments about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and on observable market data, when available.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; The Company classified these fair value measurements as Level 3. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;In the determination of impairment for operating &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, the Company determine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;d&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; the fair value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s of individual operating locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; using an income approach, which require&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;d&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; discounting projected future cash flows.  When determining the stream of projected future cash flows associated wi&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;th an individual operating location&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;management made assumptions,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; incorporating local mar&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ket conditions, about key &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;variables including sales&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; growth rates, gross margin, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;controllable &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;expenses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, such as &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;payroll and occupancy expense&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and asset residual values&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;In order to calculate the present value of those future cash flows, t&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;he Company discount&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ed&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; cash flow estimates at a rate commensurate with the risk that selected market participants would assign to the cash flows.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;In general, t&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;he selected market participants represent&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ed&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; a group&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; of other retailers with a location&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; footprint similar in size to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the Company's.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;In the determination of impairment for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;locations identified for closure and&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; for&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;excess properties held-for-use&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and held-for-sale&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; which consist&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ed&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; of retail outparcels and property associated with relocated or closed &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; the fair values &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were determined using a market approach based on&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; estimated selling prices. The Company determined the estimated selling prices by obtaining information from &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;property &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;brokers&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; or appraisers&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; in the specific markets being evaluated. The information included comparable sales of similar assets and assumptions about demand in the market for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the purchase &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;or lease &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;these assets.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The following table&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; present &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the Company's non-financial&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; assets measured at&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; fair value on a nonrecurring basis and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;the&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; resulting&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; long-lived asset impairment l&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;osses included &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;in earnings&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, excluding costs to sell for excess properties held-for-sale&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;. Because &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;assets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;subject to long-lived asset impairment &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;we&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;re not measured at fair value on a recurring basis, certain fair value measurements presented in the table may reflect values at earlier measurement dates and may no longer represent the fair values at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Operating locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 16&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (40)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Locations identified for closure&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 72&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (269)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Excess properties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 117&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (78)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Assets held-for-sale:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;   Excess properties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (1)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 207&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (388)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"  style="width: 190px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:190px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 40px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Fair Value Measurements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Impairment Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Assets held-for-use:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Operating locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (36)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Excess properties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 45&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (26)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Assets held-for-sale:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;   Excess properties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 36&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (9)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 96&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (71)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Fair Value of Financial Instruments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company's financial instruments not measured at fair value on a recurring basis include cash and cash equivalents, accounts r&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;eceivable&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;accounts payable&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; accrued liabilities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;long-term debt and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are reflected in the financial statements at cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; With the exception of long-term debt, cost approximates fair value for these items due to their short-term nature.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Estimated fair values for long-term debt have been determined using available market information&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, including reported trades, benchmark yields and broker-dealer quotes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Carrying amounts and the related estimated fair value of the Company's long-term debt, excluding capital&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ized lease obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 19px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3"  style="width: 145px; 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  Municipal obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 208&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 208&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;   Other&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 35&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 35&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 19px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total long-term investments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 1,008&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 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  <low:FairValueMeasurementsAndDisclosuresPolicyTextBlock id="ID_14214" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;W&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;hen available, quoted prices were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; used to determine fair value.  When quoted prices in active markets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; available, investments &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.  When quoted prices in active markets &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; not available, fair values &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; determined using pricing models&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and the inputs to those pricing models &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; based on observable market inputs.  The inputs to the pricing models &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;we&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;re typically benchmark yields, reported trades, broker-dealer quotes, issuer spreads and benchmark securities, among others. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company estimated the fair values of assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; subject to long-lived asset impairment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; based on the Company's own judgments about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and on observable market data, when available.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</low:FairValueMeasurementsAndDisclosuresPolicyTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:FairValueAssetsMeasuredOnNonrecurringBasisTextBlock id="ID_16105" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"  style="width: 190px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:190px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 40px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Operating locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 16&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (40)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Locations identified for closure&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 72&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (269)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Excess properties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 117&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; 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  Excess properties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (1)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 207&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (388)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"  style="width: 190px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:190px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 40px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Fair Value Measurements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Impairment Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Assets held-for-use:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;   Operating locations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (36)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt; 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text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;   Excess properties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 36&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (9)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 96&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (71)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:FairValueAssetsMeasuredOnNonrecurringBasisTextBlock>
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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Long-term debt (excluding capitalized lease obligations)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;7,209&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; 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  <us-gaap:InvestmentsInDebtAndMarketableEquitySecuritiesAndCertainTradingAssetsDisclosureTextBlock id="ID_13952" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;NOTE &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; Investments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; amortized costs, gross unrealized holding &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;gains&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and losses, and fair values of the Com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;pany's investment securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; c&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;lassified as available-for-sale&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="7"  style="width: 346px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:346px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 38px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Amortized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Gross Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 17px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="7"  style="width: 346px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:346px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 38px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Amortized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; 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163&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Other&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; 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420&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 36px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:36px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 421&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Municipal floating rate obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 765&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; 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209&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (1)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 36px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:36px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 208&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Other&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 35&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 36px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:36px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 35&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 19px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Classified as long-term&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 1,009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; 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border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 1,429&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (1)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 36px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:36px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 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The &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;investments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;classified as long-term at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, will mature in one to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;31&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; years, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;based on stated maturity d&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ates.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;T&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;he Company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;elected the fair value option for certain &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;investments &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;previously &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;maintained in conjunction with certain employee benefit plans.  T&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;hese investments are reported as trading securities, which are included in short-term investments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;27&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;50&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Net unrealized gains/losses for the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; not significant. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;For the year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 29, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;net &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;unrealized gains &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;trading securit&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ies totaled &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; respectively&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; U&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;nrealized &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;gains &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;losses &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;on &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;trading securities &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;were included in SG&amp;amp;A expense.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Cash flows from purchases, sales and maturities of trading securit&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ies &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; included in cash flows from investing activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;based on&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; the nature and purpose for which the securities were acquired&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Short-term and long-term investments include restricted balances pledged as collateral for the Company's extended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;protection plan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; program and for a portion of the Company's casualty insurance and Installed Sales program liabilities.  Restricted balances included in short-term investments were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;233&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;02&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  Restricted balances included in long-term investments were $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;262&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;260&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:InvestmentsInDebtAndMarketableEquitySecuritiesAndCertainTradingAssetsDisclosureTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:AvailableForSaleSecuritiesTextBlock id="ID_14034" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; amortized costs, gross unrealized holding &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;gains&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and losses, and fair values of the Com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;pany's investment securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; c&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;lassified as available-for-sale&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 36px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:36px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 17px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:225px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="7"  style="width: 346px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:346px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 38px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 225px; 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  <us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentDisclosureTextBlock id="ID_14051" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;NOTE &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;: Property and Accumulated Depreciation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Property is summarized by major class in the following table:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 17px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 17px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Depreciable&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td  rowspan="2" style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td  rowspan="2" style="width: 16px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td  rowspan="2" style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 17px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Lives, In Years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Land&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;N/A&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 6,936&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 6,742&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Buildings and building improvements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;5-40&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 16,640&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 16,531&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Equipment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;3-15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 9,835&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 9,142&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Construction in progress&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;N/A&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 921&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 930&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 34,332&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 33,345&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accumulated depreciation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (12,362)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (11,256)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Property, less accumulated depreciation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 21,970&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 22,089&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Included in net property ar&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;e assets under capital lease of&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;654&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million, less accumulated depreciation of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;384&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million, at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;567&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million, less accumulated depreciation of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;353&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;million, at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentDisclosureTextBlock>
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text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 17px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Depreciable&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td  rowspan="2" style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td  rowspan="2" style="width: 16px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td  rowspan="2" style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 17px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Lives, In Years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Land&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;N/A&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 6,936&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; 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text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 16,531&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Equipment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;3-15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 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border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 921&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 930&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 34,332&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 16px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:16px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 100px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 33,345&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 330px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:330px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accumulated depreciation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; 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which required the accrual of one-time termination benefits.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Subsequent changes to the liabilities, including a change resulting from a revision to either the timing or the amount of estimated cash flows, are recognized in the period of change.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;Changes to the accrual for exit activities for&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Severance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrual for exit activities, balance at beginning of period&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Additions to the accrual - net&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 83&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 98&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Cash payments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; (9)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; (15)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; (24)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrual for exit activities, balance at end of period&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 86&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 86&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Charges associated with accruals for exit activities for the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011 and January 29, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and the liabilities for exit activities at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011 and January 29, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, were immaterial.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:RestructuringAndRelatedActivitiesDisclosureTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfRestructuringReserveByTypeOfCostTextBlock id="ID_14078" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Changes to the accrual for exit activities for&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6"  style="width: 285px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:285px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 40px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Lease obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Severance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrual for exit activities, balance at beginning of period&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Additions to the accrual - net&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 83&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 98&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Cash payments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; (9)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; (15)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; (24)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Accrual for exit activities, balance at end of period&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 86&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 86&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfRestructuringReserveByTypeOfCostTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:RestructuringReserve id="ID_14082_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Jan28_2011" unitRef="USD">12000000</us-gaap:RestructuringReserve>
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  <us-gaap:RestructuringReserveSettledWithCash id="ID_14084_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012" unitRef="USD">24000000</us-gaap:RestructuringReserveSettledWithCash>
  <us-gaap:RestructuringReserve id="ID_14085_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Feb03_2012" unitRef="USD">86000000</us-gaap:RestructuringReserve>
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  <us-gaap:RestructuringReserveSettledWithCash id="ID_14089_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012_us-gaap_RestructuringCostAndReserveAxis_PropertySubjectToOperatingLeaseMember" unitRef="USD">9000000</us-gaap:RestructuringReserveSettledWithCash>
  <us-gaap:RestructuringReserve id="ID_14090_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Feb03_2012_us-gaap_RestructuringCostAndReserveAxis_OneTimeTerminationBenefitsMember" unitRef="USD">0</us-gaap:RestructuringReserve>
  <us-gaap:RestructuringReserve id="ID_14091_USD_InMillions" decimals="-6" contextRef="AS_OF_Jan28_2011_us-gaap_RestructuringCostAndReserveAxis_OneTimeTerminationBenefitsMember" unitRef="USD">0</us-gaap:RestructuringReserve>
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text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;418&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;364&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total long-term debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;7,627&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;6,573&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Less current maturities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;(592)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;(36)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Long-term debt, excluding current maturities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;7,035&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;6,537&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Real properties with an aggregate book value of $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;67&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; million were pledged as collateral at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;, for secured debt.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Amount includes $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;100&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; million of notes issued in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;1997&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; that may be put at the option of the holder on the 20&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;th&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; anniversary of the issue at par value. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;None of these notes are currently puttable.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; 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  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfDebtInstrumentsTextBlock id="ID_14106" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 60px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Debt Category
(In millions) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;Weighted-Average Interest Rate at February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 110px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:110px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 110px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:110px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 24px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Secured debt:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Mortgage notes due through fiscal 2027&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;6.05%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;20&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;17&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Unsecured debt:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Notes due through fiscal 2016&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;4.61%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2,070&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2,068&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Notes due fiscal 2017-2021&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;4.34%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;1,767&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;1,269&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Notes due fiscal 2022-2026&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;8.20%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Notes due fiscal 2027-2031&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;6.76%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;812&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;812&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Notes due fiscal 2032-2036&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;5.64%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;940&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;939&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Notes due fiscal 2037-2041&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;5.94%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;1,585&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;1,089&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Capitalized lease obligations due &lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;    through fiscal 2035&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;418&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;364&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total long-term debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;7,627&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;6,573&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Less current maturities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;(592)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;(36)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 311px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:311px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Long-term debt, excluding current maturities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 118px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:118px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;7,035&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 75px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:75px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;6,537&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Real properties with an aggregate book value of $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;67&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; million were pledged as collateral at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;, for secured debt.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Amount includes $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;100&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; million of notes issued in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;1997&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; that may be put at the option of the holder on the 20&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;th&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; anniversary of the issue at par value. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;None of these notes are currently puttable.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 118.3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2,900&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 111.7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2,600&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 224px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:224px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Shares repurchased from employees&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 1.5&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 39&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 0.7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 18&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 224px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:224px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Total share repurchases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 119.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2,939&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 112.4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2,618&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Reductions of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;2.7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; billion and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; billion were recorded to retained earnings, after capital in excess of par value was depleted, for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;2011 and 2010,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</low:ScheduleOfShareRepurchasesTableTextBlock>
  <us-gaap:StockholdersEquityNoteDisclosureTextBlock id="ID_14172" contextRef="FROM_Jan29_2011_TO_Feb03_2012">&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;"&gt;NOTE &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;: Shareholders' Equity&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Authorized shares of preferred stock were &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;5&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million ($&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;5&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; par value) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;at February 3, 2012 and January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, none&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; of which have been issued.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The Board of Directors may issue the preferred stock (without action by shareholders) in one or more series, having such voting rights, dividend and liquidation preferences, and such conversion and other rights as may be designated by the Board of Directors at the time of issuance.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Authorized shares of common stock were &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;5.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; bi&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;l&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;lion &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;($&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.50&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; par value) at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The C&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;ompany has a share repurchase program that is executed through purchases made from time to time either in the open market or through private transactions.  Shares purchased under the repurchase program are retired and returned to authorized and unissued status.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;During &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011, the Company utilized the remaining authorization under the prior share repurchase program that was authorized on January 29, 2010. On August 19, 2011, the Company's Board of Directors authorized a new $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;5.0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; billion share repurchase program with no expiration.   At February 3, 2012, the Company had remaining authorization under the share repurchase program of $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;5&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; billion.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The Company also repurchases shares from employees to satisfy either the exercise price of stock options exercised or the statutory withholding tax liability resulting from the vesting of restricted stock awards. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Shares repurchased for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011 and 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; were as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 224px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:224px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3"  style="width: 145px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:145px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3"  style="width: 145px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:center;border-color:#000000;min-width:145px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: center;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 23px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 224px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:224px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;(In millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Shares&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Shares&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 224px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:224px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Share repurchase program&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 118.3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2,900&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 111.7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2,600&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 224px; 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Estimated forfeiture rates are developed based on the Company's analysis of historical forfeiture data for homogeneous employee groups. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;General terms and methods of valuation for the Company's share-based awards are as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Stock Options&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Stock options generally have terms of seven years, with one-third of each grant vesting each year for three years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, and are assigned an exercise price equal to the closing market price of a share of the Company's common stock on the date of grant.  These options are expensed on a straight-line basis over the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;grant &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;vesting period, which is considered to be the requisite service period. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The fair value of each option grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.  When determining expected volatility, the Company considers the historical performance of the Company's stock, as well as implied volatility.  The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant, based on the options' expected term.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  The expected term of the options is based on the Company's &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;evaluation of option holders' exercise patterns and represents the period of time that options are expected to remain unexercised.  The Company uses historical data to estimate the timing and amount of forfeitures.  The assumptions used in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and weighted-average grant date fair value &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for options granted in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011, 2010 and 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times;font-size:11pt;"&gt;are as follows: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Assumptions used:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;     Weighted-average expected volatility&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;39.9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;39.4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;36.4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; 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text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 350px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:350px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;Weighted-average grant date fair value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;7.93&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;7.68&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 55px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:55px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;4.58&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 18px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:18px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;The total intrinsic value of options exercised, representing the difference between the exercise price and the market price on the date of exercise, was approximately &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Transactions related to stock options for the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Weighted-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Weighted-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Average&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Average&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Remaining&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Aggregate&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Shares&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Exercise Price&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Term&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 100px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Intrinsic Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;(In thousands)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 100px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Per Share&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;(In years)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 100px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:100px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;(In thousands)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Outstanding at January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 24,109&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 26.48&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Granted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2,311&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 25.45&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Canceled, forfeited or expired&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (4,560)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 28.46&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Exercised&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (1,329)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 19.60&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Outstanding at February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 20,531&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 26.38&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2.86&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 61,306&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Vested and expected to vest at&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: left;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 20,472&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 26.38&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2.85&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 61,145&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 234px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:234px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Exercisable at February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 15,157&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 27.75&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 35px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:35px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 2.02&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 40px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:40px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 36,095&lt;/font&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:5.4px;"&gt;1&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Options for which the exercise price exceeded the closing market price of a share of the Company's common stock at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; are excluded from the calculation of aggregate intrinsic value.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:5.4px;"&gt;2&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Includes outstanding vested options as well as outstanding nonvested options after a forfeiture rate is applied.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Performance Accelerated Restricted Stock Awards&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;"&gt; (PARS)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;PARS are valued at the market price of a share of the Company's common stock on the date of grant.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;In general, these awards vest at the end of a five-year service period from the date of grant, unless performance acceleration goals are achieved, in which case, awards vest 50% at the end of three years or 100% at the end of four years.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  The performance acceleration goals are based on targeted Company average return on beginning non&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;cash assets, as defined in the PARS agreement.  PARS are expensed on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the explicit service period related to the service condition or the implicit service period related to the performance conditions, based on the probability of meeting the conditions.  The Company uses historical data to estimate the timing and amount of forfeitures.  No PARS were granted in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;or &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The total fair value of PARS vested was approximately &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;19&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in 2011 and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;No PARS vested in&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Transactions related to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;PARS &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;for the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 61px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Shares             (In thousands)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 120px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:120px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Nonvested at January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 733&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 34.11&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Vested&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (733)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 34.11&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Nonvested at February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Performance-Based Restricted Stock Awards&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Performance-based restricted stock awards are valued at the market price of a share of the Company's common stock on the date of grant. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;In general, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;upon the achievement of a &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;minimum &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;threshold&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;25%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; 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These awards are expensed on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, based on the probability of achieving the performance goal. If the performance goal is not met, no compensation cost is recognized and any &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;previously &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;recognized compensation cost is reversed. The Company uses historical data to estimate the timing and amount of forfeitures.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;No performance-based restricted stock awards were granted in&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; 2011,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; or 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;The total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; fair value of performance-based restricted stock award&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;s&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; vested was approximately &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;16&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011 and 2010, respectively&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;No performance-based re&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;stricted stock awards vested in 2009.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Transactions related to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;performance-based &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;restricted stock awards for the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 62px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Shares             (In thousands)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 20px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:20px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 120px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:120px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Nonvested at January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 858&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 20px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:20px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 23.97&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Vested&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (631)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 20px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:20px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 23.97&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Canceled or forfeited&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (227)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 20px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:20px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 23.97&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 20px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Nonvested at February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 20px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:20px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Restricted Stock Awards&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Restricted stock awards are valued at the market price of a share of the Company's common stock on the date of grant.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;In general, these awards vest at the end of a three- to five-year period from the date of grant &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and are expensed on a straight-line basis over that period, which is considered to be the requisite service period.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;  The Company uses historical data to estimate the timing and amount of forfeitures.  The weighted-average grant-date fair value per share of restricted stock awards granted was &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;25.29&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;23.88&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;16.03&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011, 2010, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively. The total fair value of restricted stock awards vested was approximately &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;61&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;37&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million and $&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; million in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2011,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Transactions related to restricted stock awards for the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt; are summarized as follows:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:20px;"&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 58px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Shares             (In thousands)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 120px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:120px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Nonvested at January 28, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 9,855&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 20.46&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Granted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 3,044&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 25.29&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Vested&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (2,418)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 22.96&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Canceled or forfeited&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; (1,037)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 21.22&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 18px"&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 250px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:left;border-color:#000000;min-width:250px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt;Nonvested at February 3, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 95px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:95px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 9,444&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 17px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:17px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 60px; border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:60px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 11pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt; 21.30&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Deferred Stock Units&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt'&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;margin-left:0px;"&gt;Deferred stock units are valued at the market price &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;of a share of the Company's common stock &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt;on the date of grant.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;"&gt