Schedule of Quarterly Financial Data (Parenthetical) (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended																	12 Months Ended
	Nov. 30, 2013	Jul. 31, 2013	Dec. 27, 2014		Sep. 27, 2014		Jun. 28, 2014		Mar. 29, 2014		Dec. 28, 2013		Sep. 28, 2013		Jun. 29, 2013		Mar. 30, 2013		Sep. 29, 2012	Dec. 27, 2014	Dec. 28, 2013	Dec. 29, 2012
Quarterly Financial Data [Line Items]
Pre-tax Merger, restructuring, and other operating expenses			$ 128		$ 72		$ 103		$ 101		$ 111		$ 44		$ 26		$ 19			$ 403	$ 201	$ 56
Assets impairments			11		6		22		50		12		49		4		5		14	88	70	139
Legal accrual					1		80													81
Preferred stock dividends	23	22																			45
Sales			3,832	[1]	4,069	[1]	3,841	[1]	4,354	[1]	3,486	[1],[2]	2,619	[1],[3]	2,419	[1]	2,718	[1]		16,096	11,242	10,696
Net income (loss)			(84)	[1],[4]	29	[1],[4]	(190)	[1],[4]	(109)	[1],[4]	(121)	[1],[2],[5]	161	[1],[3],[5]	(54)	[1],[5]	(7)	[1],[5]		(354)	(20)	(77)
Office Depot De Mexico
Quarterly Financial Data [Line Items]
Gain on sale of business, after tax		235
OfficeMax
Quarterly Financial Data [Line Items]
Sales	939
Net income (loss)	$ (39)

[1] Due to rounding, the sum of the quarterly earnings amounts may not equal the reported amounts for the year.

[2] Net income available to common stockholders includes (i) impact of the Merger of $939 million in Sales and $(39) million in Net income (loss); and (ii) preferred stock dividends of $23 million associated to redemption in November 2013.

[3] Net income available to common stockholders includes an after-tax gain of approximately $235 million resulting from the sale of Office Depot de Mexico and preferred stock dividends of $22 million associated to redemption in July 2013.

[4] In the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2014, captions include pre-tax Merger, restructuring, and other operating expenses, net amounting to $101 million, $103 million, $72 million and $127 million, respectively and asset impairments of $50 million, $22 million, $6 million and $11 million, respectively. The second and third quarters of 2014 include $80 million and $1 million associated to Legal accrual, respectively.

[5] In the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2013, captions include pre-tax Merger, restructuring, and other operating expenses amounting to $19 million, $26 million, $44 million and $111 million, respectively and asset impairments of $5 million, $4 million, $49 million and $12 million, respectively.