Performance Based Compensation Percentage

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- Definition

Performance Based Compensation, Shares Awarded as a Percentage of Grants, Peer Group Based

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Vesting Percentage Relative To earnings per share

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Vesting Percentage Relative To net sales

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=96867065&loc=d3e5070-113901

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The number of non-vested equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, that validly exist and are outstanding as of the balance sheet date.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.

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The number of equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, that vested during the reporting period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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- Definition

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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Stock-Based Compensation - Performance Shares (Details) - Performance stock units - shares shares in Millions	9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Jul. 03, 2016	Jun. 29, 2014	Oct. 01, 2017	Oct. 02, 2016	Sep. 27, 2015
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period	3 years
Vesting percentage relative to net sales			70.00%
Vesting percentage relative to earnings per share			30.00%
Performance Based Compensation Percentage			225.00%
Performance Based Compensation, Shares Awarded as a Percentage of Grants, Peer Group Based		120.00%
Performance Units
Outstanding and Nonvested, Balance	0.7		1.7	0.7	0.7
Granted			0.2	1.5	0.3
Vested			(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.3)
Outstanding and Nonvested, Balance			1.4	1.7	0.7