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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Jan. 28, 2012
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
Note 11 – Related Party Transactions

Our Chairman and principal shareholder and his son are members of LC Footwear, LLC.  They also were shareholders of PL Footwear, Inc., which during December 2007 became a wholly owned subsidiary of LC Footwear, LLC.  We purchase name brand merchandise from LC Footwear, LLC, and PL Footwear, Inc. serves as an import agent for us.  PL Footwear, Inc. represents us on a commission basis in dealings with shoe factories in mainland China, where most of our private label shoes are manufactured.

No purchases were made from LC Footwear, LLC in fiscal year 2011.  Purchases made from LC Footwear, LLC were $50,000 and $8,000 in fiscal years 2010 and 2009, respectively.  Commissions paid to PL Footwear, Inc. were $561,000, $638,000 and $763,000 in fiscal years 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.