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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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May 03, 2025
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 the Company has not yet adopted and that could affect the Company’s financial statements.
Accounting Standards Update (ASU) |  | Description |  |  |  | Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures |  | The update requires disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as information on income taxes paid. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The guidance will be applied on a prospective basis with the option to apply the standard retrospectively. |  |  |  | Other than the new disclosure requirements, the adoption of this guidance will not have a significant impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2024-03 - Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses ASU 2025-01 - Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date |  | The update requires a disaggregated disclosure of income statement expenses. The amendments in this update require disclosure, in the notes to financial statements, of specified information about certain costs and expenses. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. |  |  |  | Other than the new disclosure requirements, the adoption of this guidance will not have a significant impact on the Company’s 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 |  | May 3, 2025 |  | February 1, 2025 |  | May 4, 2024 |  | February 3, 2024
Cash and equivalents | Cash and equivalents |  | $ | 510,563 |  |  | $ | 772,727 |  |  | $ | 864,195 |  |  | $ | 900,884 |
Restricted cash and equivalents | Other assets |  | 7,962 |  |  | 7,668 |  |  | 7,806 |  |  | 8,801 |
Cash and equivalents and restricted cash and equivalents |  |  | $ | 518,525 |  |  | $ | 780,395 |  |  | $ | 872,001 |  |  | $ | 909,685 |

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