Employee Benefit Plans

6 Months Ended

Jul. 30, 2011

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

We maintain a qualified defined benefit pension plan and a nonqualified supplemental defined benefit pension plan covering certain employees whose hire date occurred before April 1, 1994.

The weighted-average assumptions used to determine net periodic pension cost for our plans were as follows:

	2011		2010
Discount rate	5.7	%	5.7	%
Rate of increase in compensation levels	3.9	%	3.5	%
Expected long-term rate of return	8.0	%	8.0	%

The components of combined net periodic pension cost were as follows:

	Second Quarter						Year-to-Date
	2011			2010			2011			2010
(in thousands)
Service cost - benefits earned in the period	$	486		$	609		$	1,106		$	1,218
Interest cost on projected benefit obligation	904			814			1,748			1,628
Expected investment return on plan assets	(1,164		)	(1,062		)	(2,313		)	(2,124		)
Amortization of actuarial loss	544			554			898			1,108
Amortization of prior service cost	(8		)	(9		)	(17		)	(18		)
Amortization of transition obligation	3			3			6			6
Net periodic pension cost	$	765		$	909		$	1,428		$	1,818

We currently do not expect to contribute to the qualified defined benefit pension plan during 2011.  We will contribute to the nonqualified supplemental defined benefit pension plan as benefits are paid to plan participants, if any, because the nonqualified plan is not a funded plan.