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Fair Value Measurements
3 Months Ended
Apr. 28, 2012
Fair Value Measurements [Abstract]  
Fair Value Disclosures
Fair Value Measurements
GAAP utilizes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to observable quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets and liabilities and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs.
As of April 28, 2012 and January 28, 2012 the Company had $2,100,000 in Level 2 investments in the form of bank certificates of deposit which are used as cash collateral for the issuance of commercial letters of credit. The Company has no Level 3 investments that use significant unobservable inputs.