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EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
 6 Months Ended
Sep. 12, 2020
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
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Pension and Other Post-Retirement Benefits

The following tables provide the components of net pension and post-retirement (income) expense (in millions):
12 weeks ended
PensionOther post-retirement benefits
September 12,
2020		September 7,
2019		September 12,
2020		September 7,
2019
Estimated return on plan assets$(23.7)$(25.3)$— $— 
Service cost3.5 3.4 — 0.1 
Interest cost12.6 18.6 0.1 0.2 
Amortization of prior service cost— 0.1 0.4 0.9 
Amortization of net actuarial loss (gain)0.5 0.1 (0.1)(0.2)
Settlement charge3.0 — — — 
(Income) expense, net$(4.1)$(3.1)$0.4 $1.0 

28 weeks ended
PensionOther post-retirement benefits
September 12,
2020		September 7,
2019		September 12,
2020		September 7,
2019
Estimated return on plan assets$(55.2)$(59.2)$— $— 
Service cost8.3 7.9 — 0.3 
Interest cost29.2 43.4 0.2 0.4 
Amortization of prior service cost0.1 0.2 1.0 2.0 
Amortization of net actuarial loss (gain)1.1 0.3 (0.3)(0.3)
Settlement charge3.0 — — — 
(Income) expense, net$(13.5)$(7.4)$0.9 $2.4 

The Company contributed $1.7 million and $56.3 million to its defined pension plans and post-retirement benefit plans during the 12 and 28 weeks ended September 12, 2020, respectively. For the 12 and 28 weeks ended September 7, 2019, the Company contributed $1.8 million and $7.0 million, respectively. At the Company's discretion, additional funds may be contributed to the defined benefit pension plans. The Company currently anticipates contributing an additional $6.1 million to these plans for the remainder of fiscal 2020.
Defined Contribution Plans and Supplemental Retirement Plans

Total contributions expensed for defined contribution plans (401(k) plans) were $16.3 million and $14.0 million for the 12 weeks ended September 12, 2020 and September 7, 2019, respectively. For the 28 weeks ended September 12, 2020 and September 7, 2019, total contributions expensed were $38.1 million and $32.6 million, respectively.
Multiemployer Pension Plans

The Company is the second largest contributing employer to the Food Employers Labor Relations Association and United Food and Commercial Workers Pension Fund ("FELRA") which is currently projected by FELRA to become insolvent in the first quarter of 2021, and to the Mid-Atlantic UFCW and Participating Pension Fund ("MAP"). The Company continues to fund all of its required contributions to FELRA and MAP.

On March 5, 2020, the Company agreed with the two applicable local unions to new collective bargaining agreements pursuant to which the Company contributes to FELRA and MAP. In connection with these agreements, to address the pending insolvency of FELRA, the Company and the two local unions, along with the largest contributing employer, agreed to combine MAP into FELRA ("Combined Plan"). Immediately after the formation, the Combined Plan will terminate and the Company will be required to annually pay $23.2 million to the Combined Plan for the next 25 years. Immediately after the combination, the Company will receive a release of all withdrawal liability and mass withdrawal liability from FELRA, MAP, the Combined Plan and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC"). This payment will replace the Company's current annual contribution to both MAP and FELRA, which was a combined $26.2 million in fiscal 2019. In addition to the $23.2 million annual payment, the Company will begin to contribute to a new multiemployer pension plan. This new multiemployer plan will be limited to providing benefits to participants in MAP and FELRA in excess of the benefits the PBGC insures under law.

Furthermore, upon formation of the Combined Plan, the Company will establish and contribute to a new variable defined benefit plan that will provide benefits to participants for future services. These agreements are subject to approval by the PBGC, and the Company is in discussions with the local unions, the largest contributing employer and the PBGC with respect to these other plans and the Combined Plan. It is possible some provisions of the Company's agreements with the local unions may change as a result of negotiations with the PBGC. The Company expects to reach final agreements on formation of the Combined Plan by no later than December 31, 2020. Under the terms of the new collective bargaining agreements, the Company will continue to contribute to FELRA and MAP under the same terms of the previous collective bargaining agreements until approval by the PBGC and formation of the Combined Plan. The Company is currently evaluating the effect of these new agreements on its Consolidated Financial Statements and preliminarily expects to record a material increase to its pension-related liabilities with a corresponding non-cash charge to pension expense upon approval by the PBGC.

On July 21, 2020, the Company announced that it had entered into a tentative agreement with the trustees of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union ("UFCW") Union-Industry Pension Fund ("National Fund"), providing that the Company will permanently cease to have any obligation to contribute to the National Fund, a multiemployer pension plan, and will completely withdraw from the National Fund, effective as of June 30, 2020. The Company and nine UFCW local unions have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") that will permit the withdrawal and establish a single employer Variable Annuity Pension Plan (the "VAPP"), effective as of July 1, 2020, providing for future security and service benefits for the Company's associates. These agreements will become effective only if the MOU is ratified by the membership of each of these nine local unions and the related agreements with the local unions whose members participate in the National Fund and are employed by the two largest contributors to the National Fund also are ratified. After ratification, the Company will pay an aggregate of approximately $286 million to the National Fund, which will be in full satisfaction of the Company's withdrawal liability amount or mass withdrawal liability amount, by June 30, 2023. The Company will pay this
amount in three or four installments over the next three years, any portion of which may be prepaid, in whole or in part. Within 30 days of the establishment of the VAPP, the Company will pre-fund a transition reserve to support certain grandfathered participants by making a payment of approximately $8 to $9 million. The Company expects to incur a pre-tax charge of approximately $286 million (or $213 million on an after-tax basis) to record the withdrawal liability for these benefits earned for prior service. This charge is expected to be recorded upon ratification of the agreement, which the Company expects to be in the third quarter of fiscal 2020.