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Retirement Benefits (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Feb. 01, 2014
Retirement Benefits [Abstract] |
Annual activity for the non-qualified plan and year-end liability | The following table provides the Company’s annual activity for this plan and year-end liability, included in Other Long-term Liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, as of February 1, 2014 and February 2, 2013:
| February 1, 2014 |  | February 2, 2013
| (in millions)
Balance at Beginning of Year | $ | 228 |  |  | $ | 214 |
Contributions: |  |  |
Associate | 13 |  |  | 12 |
Company | 11 |  |  | 12 |
Interest | 11 |  |  | 12 |
Distributions | (20 | ) |  | (22 | )
Balance at End of Year | $ | 243 |  |  | $ | 228 |

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