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Agreed upon price for the exchange of the underlying asset.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Fair Value - Quantitative Information Used in Fair Value Calculation of Level 3 Liabilities (Details) - $ / shares		12 Months Ended
	Dec. 28, 2016	Sep. 29, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016
Fair Value Inputs, Liabilities, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount rate	8.50%
Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Discounted cash flow \| Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring \| Contingent consideration
Fair Value Inputs, Liabilities, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount rate		9.20%	12.90%
Expected term			1 year
Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Discounted cash flow \| Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring \| Contingent consideration \| Minimum
Fair Value Inputs, Liabilities, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Probability of achievement		70.00%
Expected term		2 months
Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Discounted cash flow \| Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring \| Contingent consideration \| Maximum
Fair Value Inputs, Liabilities, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Probability of achievement		100.00%
Expected term		8 months
Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Black-scholes model \| Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring \| Common stock warrant liability
Fair Value Inputs, Liabilities, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount rate		1.62%	1.14%
Expected term		3 years 2 months 23 days	4 years 2 months 23 days
Volatility		44.90%	43.20%
Exercise price (in USD per share)		$ 14.05	$ 14.05
Share price (in USD per share)		$ 44.61	$ 42.34
Dividend rate		0.00%	0.00%