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Interest Expense (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 26, 2017
Banking and Thrift, Interest [Abstract] |
Net Interest Expense | Net interest expense consisted of the following:
|  | Year Ended |
(in thousands) |  | August 26, 2017 |  |  | August 27, 2016 |  |  | August 29, 2015 |
Interest expense |  | $ | 159,329 |  |  | $ | 150,961 |  |  | $ | 153,007 |
Interest income |  |  | (3,502 | ) |  |  | (2,371 | ) |  |  | (1,605 | )
Capitalized interest |  |  | (1,247 | ) |  |  | (909 | ) |  |  | (963 | )
|  | $ | 154,580 |  |  | $ | 147,681 |  |  | $ | 150,439 |

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