Commitments and Contingencies	12 Months Ended
Commitments and Contingencies	Dec. 31, 2019
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]
Commitments and Contingencies	COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES Guarantees The Company has guaranteed certain debt obligations of some of the franchisees under a franchise loan program with one of the banks in our Credit Facilities. In the event these franchisees are unable to meet their debt service payments or otherwise experience an event of default, the Company would be unconditionally liable for the outstanding balance of the franchisees’ debt obligations under the franchisee loan program, which would be due in full within 90 days of the event of default. At December 31, 2019, the maximum amount that the Company would be obligated to repay in the event franchisees defaulted was $29.4 million. The Company has recourse rights to franchisee assets securing the debt obligations, which consist primarily of lease merchandise and fixed assets. Since the inception of the franchise loan program in 1994, the Company's losses associated with the program have been immaterial. The Company believes that any future amounts to be funded by the Company in connection with these guarantees will be immaterial. The carrying amount of the franchisee-related borrowings guarantee, which is included in accounts payable and accrued expenses in the consolidated balance sheets, was $0.3 million as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. On October 11, 2019, the Company amended its franchisee loan facility to (i) reduce the total commitment amount from $55.0 million to $40.0 million; and (ii) extend the maturity date to October 22, 2020. The loan agreement continues to provide a Canadian subfacility commitment amount for loans to franchisees that operate stores in Canada (other than the province of Quebec) of CAD $25.0 million. See Note 8 to these consolidated financial statements for more information regarding the Company's financial covenants. Subsequent Event - Franchisee Loan Facility Amendment On January 21 and February 19, 2020, the Company further amended the franchisee loan agreement to, among other changes: (i) reduce the facility commitment from $40.0 million to $35.0 million, (ii) extend the commitment termination date thereunder from October 22, 2020 to January 20, 2021, (iii) amend the definition of adjusted EBITDA to exclude certain charges, and (iv) modify certain other terms and conditions. The terms of the loan facility include an option to further reduce the maximum facility commitment amount by providing written notice to the lender, which the Company subsequently exercised on February 11, 2020 to reduce the facility commitment to $25.0 million. Legal Proceedings From time to time, the Company is party to various legal and regulatory proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. Some of the proceedings to which the Company is currently a party are described below. The Company believes it has meritorious defenses to all of the claims described below, and intends to vigorously defend against the claims. However, these proceedings are still developing and due to the inherent uncertainty in litigation, regulatory and similar adversarial proceedings, there can be no guarantee that the Company will ultimately be successful in these proceedings, or in others to which it is currently a party. Substantial losses from these proceedings or the costs of defending them could have a material adverse impact upon the Company’s business, financial position and results of operations. The Company establishes an accrued liability for legal and regulatory proceedings when it determines that a loss is both probable and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. The Company continually monitors its litigation and regulatory exposure and reviews the adequacy of its legal and regulatory reserves on a quarterly basis. The amount of any loss ultimately incurred in relation to matters for which an accrual has been established may be higher or lower than the amounts accrued for such matters. At December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company had accrued $182.9 million and $1.4 million, respectively, for pending legal and regulatory matters for which it believes losses are probable and is the Company’s best estimate of its exposure to loss. The December 31, 2019 accrual includes a $175.0 million tentative settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") discussed in more detail below. Of the amount accrued, the Company believes that $5.7 million is probable of recovery via payments received from insurance proceeds as of December 31, 2019. The Company records these liabilities in accounts payable and accrued expenses in the consolidated balance sheet. The corresponding expected insurance recoveries are recorded within prepaid expenses and other assets in the consolidated balance sheet. The Company estimates that the aggregate range of reasonably possible loss in excess of accrued liabilities for such probable loss contingencies is between $0 and $2.0 million. At December 31, 2019, the Company estimated that the aggregate range of loss for all material pending legal and regulatory proceedings for which a loss is reasonably possible, but less likely than probable (i.e., excluding the contingencies described in the preceding paragraph), is between $0 and $1.0 million. Those matters for which a reasonable estimate is not possible are not included within estimated ranges and, therefore, the estimated ranges do not represent the Company’s maximum loss exposure. The Company’s estimates for legal and regulatory accruals, aggregate probable loss amounts and reasonably possible loss amounts, are all subject to the uncertainties and variables described above. Regulatory Inquiries In July 2018, the Company received civil investigative demands ("CIDs") from the FTC regarding disclosures related to lease-to-own and other financial products offered by the Company through the Aaron's Business and Progressive Leasing and whether such disclosures violate the Federal Trade Commission Act (the "FTC Act"). Although we believe such disclosures were in compliance with the FTC Act and have not admitted to any wrongdoing, in December 2019, Progressive Leasing reached an agreement in principle with the staff of the FTC with respect to a tentative settlement to resolve the FTC inquiry, with Progressive undertaking to make a lump-sum payment of $175.0 million to the FTC. In January 2020, Progressive and FTC staff agreed in principle on the terms of a related consent order which, among other matters, requires Progressive to undertake certain compliance-related activities, including monitoring, disclosure and reporting requirements. Because Progressive reached a tentative agreement with respect to the financial terms of the settlement in December 2019, the Company has recognized a charge during the fourth quarter of $179.3 million, including $4.3 million of incurred legal fees. The proposed consent order is subject to the approval of both the FTC and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and there can be no assurance that such approval will be obtained or that the terms of any settlement will be as currently agreed between the parties. In April 2019, the Aaron’s Business, along with other lease-to-own companies, received an unrelated CID from the FTC focused on certain transactions involving the contingent purchase and sale of customer lease agreements with other lease-to-own companies, and whether such transactions violated the FTC Act. Although we believe those transactions did not violate any laws, in August 2019, the Company reached an agreement in principle with the FTC staff to resolve that CID. The proposed consent agreement, which would prohibit such contingent purchases and sales of customer lease portfolios in the future but would not require any payments to the FTC, remains subject to the approval of the Commission. Other Contingencies At December 31, 2019, the Company had non-cancelable commitments primarily related to certain advertising and marketing programs, consulting agreements, software licenses, and hardware and software maintenance of $30.9 million. Payments under these commitments are scheduled to be $18.3 million in 2020, $11.0 million in 2021, and $1.6 million in 2022. Management regularly assesses the Company’s insurance deductibles, monitors the Company’s litigation and regulatory exposure with the Company’s attorneys and evaluates its loss experience. The Company also enters into various contracts in the normal course of business that may subject it to risk of financial loss if counterparties fail to perform their contractual obligations. Off-Balance Sheet Risk The Company, through its Vive business, had unfunded lending commitments totaling $225.0 million and $316.4 million as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. These unfunded commitments arise in the ordinary course of business from credit card agreements with individual cardholders that give them the ability to borrow, against unused amounts, up to the maximum credit limit assigned to their account. While these unfunded amounts represented the total available unused lines of credit, the Company does not anticipate that all cardholders will utilize their entire available line at any given point in time. Commitments to extend unsecured credit are agreements to lend to a cardholder so long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses. Since many of the commitments are expected to expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. The reserve for losses on unfunded loan commitments is calculated by the Company based on historical usage patterns of cardholders after the initial charge and was approximately $0.4 million and $0.5 million as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. The reserve for losses on unfunded loan commitments is included in accounts payable and accrued expenses in the consolidated balance sheets.