Stockholders' Equity, Comprehensive Income and Share-Based Compensation (Details 9) (ESPP [Member])	12 Months Ended
Oct. 28, 2012 Year	Oct. 30, 2011 Year	Oct. 31, 2010 Year
ESPP [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Dividend yield	3.01%	2.53%	2.44%
Expected volatility	29.60%	31.10%	33.30%
Risk-free interest rate	0.13%	0.09%	0.19%
Expected life (in years)	0.5	0.5	0.5

The period of time an equity-based award is expected to be outstanding. An equity-based award's expected term is generally determined based on, among other factors, the instrument's contractual term and the effects of employees' expected exercise and post-vesting employment termination behavior.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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