LEASES LEASES - Future Minimum Lease Payments and Lease Receipts (New Accounting Standard) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands		Aug. 01, 2020		Aug. 04, 2019	Aug. 03, 2019
Operating Lease Liabilities
2021	[1]	$ 226,081
2022	[1]	217,353
2023	[1]	184,360
2024	[1]	157,528
2025	[1]	114,577
Thereafter	[1]	868,870
Total undiscounted lease liabilities and receipts	[1]	1,768,769
Less interest	[1],[2]	(763,757)
Present value of lease liabilities	[1]	1,005,012
Less current lease liabilities		(131,022)	[1]	$ (137,741)	$ 0
Long-term lease liabilities		873,990	[1]	$ 936,728	0
Finance Lease Liabilities
2021	[3]	23,801
2022	[3]	118,812
2023	[3]	14,717
2024	[3]	13,602
2025	[3]	9,316
Thereafter	[3]	6,239
Total undiscounted lease liabilities and receipts	[3]	186,487
Less interest	[2],[3]	(30,438)
Present value of lease liabilities	[3]	156,049
Less current lease liabilities		(12,746)	[3]		(24,670)
Long-term lease liabilities		143,303	[3]		$ 108,208
Operating Lease Receipts
2021		(51,750)
2022		(46,642)
2023		(36,361)
2024		(28,347)
2025		(18,155)
Thereafter		(45,093)
Total undiscounted lease liabilities and receipts		(226,348)
Finance Lease Receipts
2021		0
2022		0
2023		0
2024		0
2025		0
Thereafter		0
Total undiscounted lease liabilities and receipts		0
Operating Leases, Net Lease Obligations
2021		174,331
2022		170,711
2023		147,999
2024		129,181
2025		96,422
Thereafter		823,777
Total undiscounted lease liabilities and receipts		1,542,421
Finance Leases, Net Lease Obligations
2021		23,801
2022		118,812
2023		14,717
2024		13,602
2025		9,316
Thereafter		6,239
Total undiscounted lease liabilities and receipts		186,487
Lease payments related to extension options reasonably certain to be exercised		11,400
Lease payments, signed, not yet commenced		23,000
Finance lease payments related to extension options reasonably certain to be exercised		0
Finance payments, signed, not yet commenced		400
Finance lease payments, payments related to a facility		$ 59,500

[1] Operating lease payments include $11.4 million related to extension options that are reasonably certain of being exercised and exclude $23.0 million of legally binding minimum lease payments for leases signed but not yet commenced.

[2] Calculated using the interest rate for each lease.

[3] Finance lease payments include $0.0 million related to extension options that are reasonably certain of being exercised and exclude $0.4 million of legally binding minimum lease payments for leases signed but not yet commenced.