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5. The Company Sponsors Four Defined Benefit Pension Plans. Net Periodic Pension Costs For The Four Plans Includes The Following Components: Schedule of Net Benefit Costs Recognized (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Oct. 27, 2012
Tables/Schedules  
Schedule of Net Benefit Costs Recognized

5.         The Company sponsors four defined benefit pension plans.  Net periodic pension costs for the four plans includes the following components:

13 Weeks Ended

13 Weeks Ended

October 27, 2012

October 29, 2011

Service cost

  $                818 

  $                664 

Interest cost on projected benefit obligations

                    618 

                    678 

Expected return on plan assets

                   (694)

                   (631)

Amortization of gains and losses

                    529 

                    330 

Amortization of prior service costs

                       2 

                       2 

Net periodic pension cost

  $             1,273 

  $             1,043