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This element represents the amount of recognized equity-based compensation during the period, that is, the amount recognized as expense in the income statement (or as asset if compensation is capitalized). Alternate captions include the words "stock-based compensation".

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The aggregate expense recognized in the current period that allocates the cost of tangible assets, intangible assets, or depleting assets to periods that benefit from use of the assets.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Amount of total revenue for the reportable segments, including revenue from external customers, transactions with other operating segments of the same entity, and (gross) interest revenue. All considered to be "operating revenue" for purposes of the taxonomy.

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	May 07, 2013 item	Jun. 29, 2013	Jun. 23, 2012	Jun. 29, 2013 item	Jun. 23, 2012	Jun. 29, 2013 Domestic	Jun. 23, 2012 Domestic	Jun. 29, 2013 Domestic	Jun. 23, 2012 Domestic	May 08, 2013 Domestic item	Jun. 29, 2013 Canada	Jun. 23, 2012 Canada	Jun. 29, 2013 Canada	Jun. 23, 2012 Canada	Jun. 29, 2013 Corporate Unallocated	Jun. 23, 2012 Corporate Unallocated	Jun. 29, 2013 Corporate Unallocated	Jun. 23, 2012 Corporate Unallocated	Jun. 23, 2012 Corporate Unallocated Revision to correctly reflect depreciation expense Amount of revision IST	Jun. 23, 2012 Corporate Unallocated Revision to correctly reflect depreciation expense Amount of revision IST	Jun. 23, 2012 Operating segments Revision to correctly reflect depreciation expense Amount of revision IST	Jun. 23, 2012 Operating segments Revision to correctly reflect depreciation expense Amount of revision IST
Segment Reporting
Historical number of business segments	3
Number of operating segments				2
Number of reportable segments				2
Number of channels in which products are distributed				2
Segment Reporting
Number of domestic segments into which SCBU and KBU were combined										1
Net sales		$ 967,072	$ 869,194	$ 3,310,923	$ 2,912,462	$ 822,593	$ 719,771	$ 2,820,123	$ 2,437,935		$ 144,479	$ 149,423	$ 490,800	$ 474,527
Operating income (loss)		193,344	129,728	587,889	425,159	213,076	125,368	644,024	423,228		23,658	21,933	69,855	60,327	(43,390)	(17,573)	(125,990)	(58,396)
Stock compensation		6,131	4,420	21,203	13,629	2,615	2,011	7,808	6,147		515	379	1,870	1,504	3,001	2,030	11,525	5,978
Depreciation and amortization		$ 61,209	$ 44,874	$ 171,968	$ 123,717	$ 44,083	$ 29,452	$ 121,675	$ 78,963		$ 16,501	$ 15,421	$ 48,938	$ 44,751	$ 625	$ 1	$ 1,355	$ 3	$ (5,300)	$ (14,400)	$ 5,300	$ 14,400