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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jul. 29, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Table Text Block] | Recent accounting pronouncements The Company reviews recent accounting pronouncements on a quarterly basis and has excluded discussion of those not applicable to the Company and those that did not have, or are not expected to have, a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The following table provides a brief description of certain accounting pronouncements that the company has adopted.
Accounting Standards Update (ASU) |  | Description |  | Date of adoption |  | Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
ASU 2022-04, Liabilities — Supplier Finance Programs (Subtopic 405-50): Disclosure of Supplier Finance Program Obligations |  | The update relates to disclosure requirements for buyers in supplier finance programs. The amendments in the update require that a buyer disclose qualitative and quantitative information about their supplier finance programs. Interim and annual requirements include disclosure of outstanding amounts under the obligations as of the end of the reporting period, and annual requirements include a roll-forward of those obligations for the annual reporting period, as well as a description of payment and other key terms of the programs. This update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years, except for the requirement to disclose roll-forward information, which is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. |  | January 29, 2023 |  | The Company adopted the changes to the standard under the retrospective method in the first quarter of Fiscal 2023, except for roll-forward information, which is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. The adoption of this guidance did not have a significant impact on the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.
Reconciliation of Cash and Equivalents to Restricted cash and Equivalents [Table Text Block] | Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows reconciliation The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and equivalents and restricted cash and equivalents to the amounts shown on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows:
(in thousands) | Location |  | July 29, 2023 |  | January 28, 2023 |  | July 30, 2022 |  | January 29, 2022
Cash and equivalents | Cash and equivalents |  | $ | 617,339 |  |  | $ | 517,602 |  |  | $ | 369,957 |  |  | $ | 823,139 |
Long-term restricted cash and equivalents | Other assets |  | 9,764 |  |  | 9,967 |  |  | 10,077 |  |  | 11,229 |
Cash and equivalents and restricted cash and equivalents |  |  | $ | 627,103 |  |  | $ | 527,569 |  |  | $ | 380,034 |  |  | $ | 834,368 |

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