Note 16 Additional Information (Details)	12 Months Ended
Oct. 01, 2022
Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting Period	1 year
Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting Period	4 years
Performance Shares With TSR [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Potential adjustments to PSUs	15.00%
Performance Shares With TSR [Member] \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Potential Payout Percentage	80.00%
Performance Shares With TSR [Member] \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Potential Payout Percentage	120.00%

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- Definition

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- Definition

Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/exampleRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=128089324&loc=d3e5070-113901

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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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No definition available.

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