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NOTE 2 - FISCAL YEAR
 12 Months Ended
Jan. 29, 2012
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE 2 – FISCAL YEAR

Our fiscal years end on the Sunday closest to January 31. In some years, generally once every six years, the fourth quarter will be fourteen weeks long and the fiscal year will consist of fifty-three weeks (for example, the fiscal year that ended February 3, 2008 was fifty-three weeks). Our quarterly periods are based on thirteen-week “reporting periods,” which will end on a Sunday. As a result, each quarterly period generally will be thirteen weeks, or 91 days, long.

In the notes to the consolidated financial statements, references to the:

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2012 fiscal year and comparable terminology mean the fiscal year that began January 31, 2011 and ended January 29, 2012;

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2011 fiscal year and comparable terminology mean the fiscal year that began February 1, 2010 and ended January 30, 2011;  and

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2010 fiscal year and comparable terminology mean the fiscal year that began February 2, 2009 and ended January 31, 2010.