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Employee Benefit Plans (Details) - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 29, 2017	Jan. 31, 2016	Feb. 01, 2015
Employee benefit plans:
Contributions to benefit plans	$ 195	$ 186	$ 182
Number of Shares Held in Employee Benefit Plans	8

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Number of shares held in employee benefit plans.

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- Definition

The amount of the cost recognized during the period for defined contribution plans.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 70
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49170846&loc=d3e28014-114942

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