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Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Details 2) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended			1 Months Ended	0 Months Ended
	May 04, 2013	Feb. 01, 2014	Feb. 02, 2013	Jan. 28, 2012	Jun. 30, 2012 Fixed rate debt	Mar. 20, 2013 Credit card receivables Subsequent event Maximum	Mar. 13, 2013 Nonrecourse Credit card receivables
Required Principal Payments
2014		$ 1,001,000,000
2015		27,000,000
2016		751,000,000
2017		2,251,000,000
2018		201,000,000
Repayment of 2006/2007 Series Variable Funding Certificate at par		0	1,500,000,000	0	1,500,000,000		1,500,000,000
Open tender offers to use cash proceeds from the sale to repurchase outstanding debt						1,400,000,000
Repurchase of long-term debt	$ 970,000,000	$ 3,463,000,000	$ 1,529,000,000	$ 3,125,000,000

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