Lease Accounting - Lease Assets and Liabilities (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	May 04, 2019	Feb. 02, 2019
Assets
Operating	$ 921,084	$ 0
Finance	15,197
Total lease assets	936,281
Current:
Operating	217,110	0
Finance	1,976
Noncurrent:
Operating	764,202	$ 0
Finance	14,591
Total lease liabilities	$ 997,879

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Lessee, Assets [Abstract]

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Lessee, Liabilities, Current [Abstract]

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Lessee, Liabilities, Noncurrent [Abstract]

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Operating And Finance Lease, Liability

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Present value of lessee's discounted obligation for lease payments from finance lease, classified as current.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Section 45
-Paragraph 1
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Present value of lessee's discounted obligation for lease payments from finance lease, classified as noncurrent.

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Amount of lessee's right to use underlying asset under finance lease.

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Present value of lessee's discounted obligation for lease payments from operating lease, classified as current.

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Amount of lessee's right to use underlying asset under operating lease.

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