NOTE 12 - SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Jan. 28, 2018

NOTE 12 - SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Tables) [Line Items]

Schedule of Share-based Compensation, Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units Activity [Table Text Block]

We have issued restricted stock awards to non-employee directors since 2006 and certain management employees since 2014 and have issued restricted stock units (RSUs) to certain senior executives since fiscal 2012, under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plan. We expect to continue to grant these types of awards annually in the future. The following table sets forth the number of outstanding restricted stock awards and RSUs, net of forfeitures and vested shares, as of the fiscal year-end dates indicated:

	January 28,		January 29,		January 31,
	2018		2017		2016

Restricted shares		15,777		25,682		24,919
Restricted stock units		19,397		20,462		12,840
		35,174		46,144		37,759

Restricted Stock [Member]

NOTE 12 - SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Tables) [Line Items]

Schedule of Share-based Compensation, Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units Activity [Table Text Block]

For each restricted stock issuance, the following table summarizes restricted stock activity, including the weighted average issue price of those shares on the grant date, the fair value of each grant of restricted stock on the grant date, compensation expense recognized for the unvested shares of restricted stock for each grant and the remaining fair value of the unvested shares of restricted stock for each grant as of January 28, 2018:

	Whole Number of Shares			Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share		Aggregate Grant-Date Fair Value			Compensation Expense Recognized		Grant-Date Fair Value Unrecognized At January 28, 2018



Previous Awards (vested)									$	1,136

Restricted shares Issued on April 6, 2015		5,741		$	21.44		123			79		4
Forfeited		(1,861	)				(40	)

Restricted shares Issued on April 13, 2016		4,872		$	25.45		130			60		39
Forfeited		(1,175	)				(31	)

Restricted shares Issued on April 13, 2017		4,572		$	31.45		142			30		78
Forfeited		(1,058	)				(34	)

Restricted shares Issued on June 9, 2017		3,764		$	41.70		157			105		52

Restricted shares Issued on August 29, 2017		922		$	39.05		36			15		21


Awards outstanding at January 28, 2018:		15,777				$	483		$	289	$	194

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]

NOTE 12 - SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Tables) [Line Items]

Schedule of Share-based Compensation, Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units Activity [Table Text Block]

We have awarded time-based restricted stock units to certain senior executives since 2011. Each restricted stock unit, or “RSU”, entitles the executive to receive one share of the Company’s common stock if he remains continuously employed with the Company through the end of a three-year service period. The RSUs may be paid in shares of the Company’s common stock, cash or both, at the discretion of the Compensation Committee. The RSUs are accounted for as “non-vested stock grants.” Similar to the restricted stock grants issued to our non-employee directors, RSU compensation expense is recognized ratably over the applicable service period. However, unlike restricted stock grants, no shares are issued, or other payment made, until the end of the applicable service period (commonly referred to as “cliff vesting”) and grantees are not entitled to receive dividends on their RSUs during that time. The fair value of each RSU is the market price of a share of our common stock on the grant date, reduced by the present value of the dividends expected to be paid on a share of our common stock during the applicable service period, discounted at the appropriate risk-free rate. The following table presents RSU activity for the year ended January 28, 2018

	Whole Number of Units		Grant-Date Fair Value Per Unit		Aggregate Grant-Date Fair Value		Compensation Expense Recognized		Grant-Date Fair Value Unrecognized At January 28, 2018


Previous Awards (vested)							$	400

RSUs Awarded on April 6, 2015		5,518	$	17.52		97		91		6
RSUs Awarded on April 13, 2016		7,622	$	24.26		185		113		72
RSUs Awarded on April 15, 2017		6,257	$	31.45		185		51		134

Awards outstanding at January 28, 2018:		19,397			$	467	$	255	$	212