BENEFIT PLANS

3 Months Ended

May 04, 2013

Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Defined Benefit Postretirement Plans Disclosure [Abstract]

BENEFIT PLANS

BENEFIT PLANS

Pension and Postretirement Benefit Plans

We provide benefits to certain associates who are eligible under various defined benefit pension plans, contributory defined benefit pension plans and other postretirement plans, primarily retiree medical benefits. For purposes of determining the periodic expense of our defined benefit plans, we use the fair value of plan assets as the market related value. The following table summarizes the components of total net periodic benefit expense, recorded within Selling and administrative on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, for our retirement plans:

	13 Weeks Ended
millions	May 4, 2013			April 28, 2012
Components of net periodic expense:
Interest cost	$	75		$	96
Expected return on plan assets	(77		)	(93		)
Amortization of experience losses	48			48
Net periodic expense	$	46		$	51

Contributions

During the 13-week periods ended May 4, 2013 and April 28, 2012, we made total contributions of $89 million and $86 million, respectively, to our pension and postretirement plans. We anticipate making aggregate contributions to our domestic and Canadian defined benefit and postretirement plans of approximately $323 million over the remainder of 2013.