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Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jul. 30, 2011
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]
Related Party Transactions
The Company entered into marketing agreements with Creative Commerce and its subsidiary, International Commerce Agency, LLC (“International Commerce”), under which Creative Commerce and International Commerce agreed to provide vendor sourcing and retailing consulting services to the Company. One of the Company's directors, Edwin Garrubbo, is the majority owner of both Creative Commerce and International Commerce. The Company has made payments totaling approximately $655,000 for the six-month period ending July 30, 2011 and the Company made payments totaling approximately $787,000 during fiscal 2010 relating to these services.


Relationship with GE Equity and NBCU
In January 2011, General Electric Company (“GE”) consummated a transaction with Comcast Corporation (“Comcast”) pursuant to which GE contributed all of its holdings in NBCU to NBCUniversal, LLC, a newly formed entity beneficially owned 51% by Comcast and 49% by GE. As a result of that transaction, NBCU is now a wholly owned subsidiary of NBCUniversal, LLC. As of July 30, 2011, the direct equity ownership of GE Equity in the Company consists of warrants to purchase up to 6,000,000 shares of common stock and the direct ownership of NBCU in the Company consists of 7,141,849 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 14,744 shares of common stock. The Company is currently making arm's length negotiated payments to Comcast for cable distribution under a pre-existing contract.
In connection with the transfer of its ownership in NBCU, GE also agreed with Comcast that, for so long as GE Equity is entitled to appoint two members of our board of directors, NBCU will be entitled to retain a board seat provided that NBCU beneficially owns at least 5% of our adjusted outstanding common stock. Furthermore, GE agreed to obtain the consent of NBCU prior to consenting to our adoption of any shareholders rights plan or certain other actions that would impede or restrict the ability of NBCU to acquire or dispose of shares of our voting stock or taking any action that would result in NBCU being deemed to be in violation of the Federal Communications Commission multiple ownership regulations.