Note 6 Accounts Receivable Sale Program (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Jan. 02, 2021	Dec. 28, 2019	Oct. 03, 2020
Transfer of Financial Assets Accounted for as Sales [Line Items]
Face Value of Receivable Sold, Percentage	100.00%
Accounts Receivable Sold During The Period	$ 263	$ 538
RPA [Member]
Transfer of Financial Assets Accounted for as Sales [Line Items]
Accounts Receivable Sold and Outstanding	52		$ 97
Amount Collected But Not Remitted to Financial Institutions	$ 44		$ 39

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Amount of receivables collected by a servicer on behalf of a financial institution, for which the proceeds collected had not yet been remitted to the financial institution

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Percentage of a trade receivables face value that has been sold

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Amount of derecognized financial assets from transactions which comprise an initial transfer and an agreement entered into in contemplation of the initial transfer resulting in retention of substantially all of the exposure to the economic return throughout the term of the transaction, at the date of derecognition.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4D
-Subparagraph (a)
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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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