Retiree Benefits - Additional Information (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Oct. 26, 2012	Apr. 27, 2012	Oct. 25, 2013	Oct. 26, 2012	Oct. 28, 2011
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Maximum percentage of participant's compensation matched by employer			6.00%
Defined contribution expense			$ 63,200,000	$ 47,800,000	$ 30,400,000
Defined benefit contribution plan expense			12,600,000	5,600,000
Defined benefit employee pension plan expense			19,632,000	46,508,000	50,326,000
Curtailment charges	10,400,000	1,100,000
Assumed annual rate of increase in the per capita cost of covered health care benefits			7.00%
Description of the change in the per capita cost of covered health care benefits rate			The per capita cost of covered health care benefits is assumed to decrease 0.25% per year to an ultimate rate of 5.0%.
Assumed percentage decrease in per capita cost of covered health care benefits rate			0.25%
Ultimate health care cost trend rate			5.00%
Effect of one percentage point increase in the assumed health care cost trend rates on accumulated postretirement benefit obligation			800,000
Effect of one percentage point increase in the assumed health care cost trend rates on service cost and interest cost components			100,000
Effect of one percentage point decrease in the assumed health care cost trend rates on accumulated postretirement benefit obligation			700,000
Effect of one percentage point decrease in the assumed health care cost trend rates on service cost and interest cost components			100,000
Maximum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Percentage of participant salary deferral contributions matched by employer			50.00%
Additional defined benefit contribution percentage of eligible employee compensation			5.00%
Expected contributions to employee pension plans for 2014			50,000,000
Minimum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Percentage of participant salary deferral contributions matched by employer			25.00%
Additional defined benefit contribution percentage of eligible employee compensation			1.00%
Expected contributions to employee pension plans for 2014			40,000,000
U.S. Pension Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Curtailment charges			0	37,796,000
Discount rate			3.95%	5.00%	5.60%
Expected return on plan assets			6.50%	7.00%	7.51%
Investment goals			The U.S. plans' assets are invested to maintain funded ratios over the long-term, while managing the risk that funded ratios fall meaningfully below 100%. The Company has for some time been focused on a plan and objective to achieve an asset and liability duration match so that interim fluctuations in funded status should be limited by increasing the correlation between assets and liabilities. At this time, the plans' portfolio is significantly invested in duration matched fixed income securities.
Maximum funded ratios			100.00%
U.S. Pension Plans | Maximum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate				5.00%
Expected return on plan assets				7.00%
U.S. Pension Plans | Minimum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate				3.95%
Expected return on plan assets				6.75%
Non-U.S. Pension Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Curtailment charges			0	0
Discount rate			4.28%	5.28%	5.24%
Expected return on plan assets			6.64%	6.93%	7.22%
Investment goals			The Company's objectives with respect to its global pension plans are (1) to acquire suitable assets of appropriate liquidity, which, together with new contributions, will meet the cost of the current and future benefits which the plans provide; (2) to limit the risk of the assets failing to meet the liabilities over the long term; and (3) to minimize the long term costs of the plans by maximizing the correlation with plan liabilities. There is no assurance that these objectives will be met.
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Maximum age of active employees required to pay all applicable premium for postretirement healthcare benefits			45 years
Percentage of premium for postretirement healthcare benefits required to be paid			100.00%
Curtailment charges			0	0
Special termination benefits charge	$ 1,000,000		$ 0	$ 981,000	$ 0
Discount rate			3.60%	4.65%	4.85%
Expected return on plan assets			7.40%	7.50%	8.00%
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | Maximum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate				4.65%
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | Minimum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate				3.60%