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Percentage of Operated Stores

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Amount of loss from the write-down of an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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Charge to cost of goods sold that represents the reduction of the carrying amount of inventory, generally attributable to obsolescence or market conditions.

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Term of the lessee's leasing arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Revenue earned during the period relating to consideration received from another party for the right to use, but not own, certain of the entity's intangible assets. Licensing arrangements include, but are not limited to, rights to use a patent, copyright, technology, manufacturing process, software or trademark. Licensing fees are generally, but not always, fixed as to amount and not dependent upon the revenue generated by the licensing party. An entity may receive licensing fees for licenses that also generate royalty payments to the entity.

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The number of countries in which the entity operates as of balance sheet date.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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The number of states the entity operates in as of the balance sheet date.

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Represents the number of stores.

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	Jan. 31, 2015 stores countries	Feb. 01, 2014	Feb. 02, 2013	Jan. 31, 1994 countries
Depreciation and amortization
Number of Stores	1,602us-gaap_NumberOfStores
Licenses Revenue	$ 17us-gaap_LicensesRevenue	$ 16us-gaap_LicensesRevenue	$ 16us-gaap_LicensesRevenue
Number of Reportable Segments	2us-gaap_NumberOfReportableSegments
Number of Licensed Stores	212tru_NumberOfStoresOperatedByFranchisees
Number of Countries in which Entity Operates	37			17
Goodwill impairment	0us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss	378us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss	0us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss
Inventory Write-down		51us-gaap_InventoryWriteDown
Domestic
Depreciation and amortization
Number of Stores	872
Number of States in which Entity Operates	49
Lessee Leasing Arrangements, Operating Leases, Term of Contract	2 years
Goodwill impairment		361
International
Depreciation and amortization
Percentage of Operated Stores	77.00%
Number of Stores	942
Lessee Leasing Arrangements, Operating Leases, Term of Contract	2 years
Number of Licensed Stores	212
Number of Countries in which Entity Operates	36
Goodwill impairment		$ 17
International \| Wholly Owned Properties [Member]
Depreciation and amortization
Number of Stores	730