Stock-Based Compensation - SARs (Details) - Stock Appreciation Rights	9 Months Ended
Jan. 28, 2017 $ / shares
Stock-Based Compensation
Percentage vesting each year from date of grant	25.00%
Period from grant date for first vesting	1 year
Vesting period	4 years
Fiscal 2014 Grant
Fair value assumptions
Risk-free interest rate (as a percent)	0.87%
Dividend rate (as a percent)	1.53%
Expected life in years	1 year 4 months 17 days
Stock price volatility (as a percent)	35.10%
Fair value per share (in dollars per share)	$ 10.18
Fiscal 2013 Grant
Fair value assumptions
Risk-free interest rate (as a percent)	0.64%
Dividend rate (as a percent)	1.53%
Expected life in years	5 months 16 days
Stock price volatility (as a percent)	33.74%
Fair value per share (in dollars per share)	$ 16.66

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Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Per share weighted average intrinsic value of equity-based compensation awards not vested. Excludes stock and unit options.

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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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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Expected term of share-based compensation awards, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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