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Segment Reporting

3 Months Ended

Nov. 18, 2017

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting

Note M – Segment Reporting

The Company’s four operating segments (Domestic Auto Parts, Mexico, Brazil and IMC) are aggregated as one reportable segment: Auto Parts Locations. The criteria the Company used to identify the reportable segment are primarily the nature of the products the Company sells and the operating results that are regularly reviewed by the Company’s chief operating decision maker to make decisions about the resources to be allocated to the business units and to assess performance. The accounting policies of the Company’s reportable segment are the same as those described in Note A in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 26, 2017.

The Auto Parts Locations segment is a retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories through the Company’s 6,049 locations in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Brazil. Each location carries an extensive product line for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans and light trucks, including new and remanufactured automotive hard parts, maintenance items, accessories and non-automotive products.

The Other category reflects business activities of three operating segments that are not separately reportable due to the materiality of these operating segments. The operating segments include ALLDATA, which produces, sells and maintains diagnostic and repair information software used in the automotive repair industry; E-commerce, which includes direct sales to customers through www.autozone.com; and AutoAnything, which includes direct sales to customers through www.autoanything.com.

The Company evaluates its reportable segment primarily on the basis of net sales and segment profit, which is defined as gross profit. Segment results for the periods presented were as follows:

		Twelve Weeks Ended
(in thousands)		November 18, 2017				November 19, 2016
Net Sales
Auto Parts Locations		$	2,510,128			$	2,389,561
Other			79,003				78,284
Total		$	2,589,131			$	2,467,845
Segment Profit
Auto Parts Locations		$	1,322,444			$	1,257,767
Other			43,404				43,775
Gross profit			1,365,848				1,301,542
Operating, selling, general and administrative expenses			(897,094	)			(842,640	)
Interest expense, net			(38,889	)			(33,306	)
Income before income taxes		$	429,865			$	425,596

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The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510

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