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Stock Repurchase Program | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 26, 2017
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Stock Repurchase Program | Note K – Stock Repurchase Program During 1998, the Company announced a program permitting the Company to repurchase a portion of its outstanding shares not to exceed a dollar maximum established by the Board. The program was last amended on March 21, 2017 to increase the repurchase authorization to $18.65 billion from $17.9 billion. From January 1998 to August 26, 2017, the Company has repurchased a total of 142.3 million shares at an aggregate cost of $17.826 billion. The Company’s share repurchase activity consisted of the following:
|  | Year Ended |
(in thousands) |  | August 26, 2017 |  |  | August 27, 2016 |  |  | August 29, 2015 |
Amount |  | $ | 1,071,649 |  |  | $ | 1,452,462 |  |  | $ | 1,271,416 |
Shares |  |  | 1,495 |  |  |  | 1,903 |  |  |  | 2,010 |
During fiscal year 2017, the Company retired 1.8 million shares of treasury stock which had previously been repurchased under the Company’s share repurchase program. The retirement increased Retained deficit by $1.321 billion and decreased Additional paid-in capital by $64.9 million. During the comparable prior year period, the Company retired 2.1 million shares of treasury stock, which increased Retained deficit by $1.424 billion and decreased Additional paid-in capital by $67.0 million.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for treasury stock, including, but not limited to, average cost per share, description of share repurchase program, shares repurchased, shares held for each class of treasury stock. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 505 -SubTopic 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/subtopic&trid=2208821 + Details
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