Retirement Plans (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jul. 05, 2015

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Expense [Abstract]

The components of net periodic benefit cost in each period were as follows (in thousands):



	Quarter						Year-to-date
	July 5, 2015			July 6, 2014			July 5, 2015			July 6, 2014
Defined benefit pension plans:
Service cost	$	1,908		$	1,875		$	6,360		$	6,249
Interest cost	5,237			5,364			17,457			17,880
Expected return on plan assets	(5,370		)	(5,652		)	(17,901		)	(18,840		)
Actuarial loss (1)	2,172			1,023			7,240			3,411
Amortization of unrecognized prior service costs (1)	62			62			207			207
Net periodic benefit cost	$	4,009		$	2,672		$	13,363		$	8,907
Postretirement healthcare plans:
Interest cost	$	276		$	379		$	920		$	1,261
Actuarial loss (1)	42			125			140			417
Net periodic benefit cost	$	318		$	504		$	1,060		$	1,678

Schedule Of Defined Benefit Plan Contribution

Future cash flows — Our policy is to fund our plans at or above the minimum required by law. As of the date of our last actuarial funding valuation, there was no minimum contribution funding requirement. Details regarding fiscal 2015 contributions are as follows (in thousands):



	Defined Benefit Pension Plans		Postretirement Healthcare Plans
Net year-to-date contributions	$	13,707	$	652
Remaining estimated net contributions during fiscal 2015	$	11,000	$	600