text: **REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM**
  
  To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Nordstrom, Inc. 
  Seattle, Washington 
  
  We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Nordstrom, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of January 31, 2015, 
  based on criteria established in*Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013),*issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the 
  Treadway Commission. The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for 
  its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying*Management’s Report on*
  *Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.*Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial 
  reporting based on our audit. 
  
  We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those 
  standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial 
  reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, 
  assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on 
  the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit 
  provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. 