Stock-Based Compensation (Assumptions To Estimate the Fair Value for Stock Options at Grant Date) (Details)	12 Months Ended
Jan. 28, 2012	Jan. 29, 2011	Jan. 30, 2010
Weighted average volatility	39.00%	40.00%	61.00%
Weighted average expected dividend yield	2.00%	1.30%	1.30%
Expected life in years	5.9	5.7	5.3
Maximum [Member]
Risk-free interest rate	3.50%	4.00%	3.30%
Minimum [Member]
Risk-free interest rate	0.40%	0.50%	0.70%

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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