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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-17-161064
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20170505

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AUTOZONE INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000866787
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-AUTO & HOME SUPPLY STORES [5531]
		IRS NUMBER:				621482048
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NV
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		123 SOUTH FRONT ST
		CITY:			MEMPHIS
		STATE:			TN
		ZIP:			38103
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9014956500

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		P O BOX 2198
		STREET 2:		DEPT 8074
		CITY:			MEMPHIS
		STATE:			TN
		ZIP:			38101-2198
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 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">123 South Front Street, Memphis, TN 38103 Phone (901)&nbsp;495-6500 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">May&nbsp;5, 2017 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">VIA EDGAR AND EMAIL </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">United States Securities and Exchange Commission </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Jennifer
Thompson, Accounting Branch Chief </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Division of Corporation Finance, Office of Consumer Products </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mail Stop 3561 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">100 F Street, NE </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended August 27, 2016</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Response Dated April 10, 2017</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">AutoZone, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) respectfully acknowledges receipt of and is pleased to respond to the comments from the Staff of the Division of
Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) on our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;27, 2016. Below is our response to the comments in your letter dated April&nbsp;24, 2017. For your
convenience of reference and review, we have repeated your comment as presented in the letter and replied in <B>bold </B>immediately under the comment. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page 23 </U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures, page 31 </U></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">We have reviewed your response to comment 1 and have the following comments: </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">It appears from your response that management intends for debt levels to fluctuate with EBITDAR in order to target the debt portion of your capital structure to a 2.5:1 ratio of adjusted debt to EBITDAR. Therefore, to
the extent that EBITDAR continues to grow, debt levels also are expected to grow. Please disclose this information to your investors as we believe it provides important information allowing investors to better view your company through the eyes of
management and to better assess the likelihood that past performance is indicative of future performance. </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">We note that your non-GAAP measure presents the increase in cash you would have experienced if you had not repurchased shares. If you disclose the positive effects that would have resulted from not repurchasing shares,
such as the increase in your cash, you should balance that disclosure by describing other effects of this decision that may be less </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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desirable to your investors. For example, not repurchasing your shares presumably would have resulted in lower earnings per share and a lower stock price. Please revise your disclosure
accordingly. </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>AutoZone Response: </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Beginning with our next annual filing, we will revise our Liquidity and Capital Resources and the Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures discussions
to respond to the above comment, as well as the comments in your letter dated March&nbsp;22, 2017. If we had included these revised disclosures in our Form 10-K for the year ended August&nbsp;27, 2016, it would have read as follows (with key changes
underlined): </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Liquidity and Capital Resources &#150; Debt Facilities section </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>For the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;27, 2016, our adjusted debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, rent and share-based
compensation expense (&#147;EBITDAR&#148;) ratio was 2.5:1 as compared to 2.5:1 as of the comparable prior year end. We calculate adjusted debt as the sum of total debt, capital lease obligations and rent times six; and we calculate EBITDAR by
adding interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, rent and share-based compensation expense to net income. We target our debt levels to a ratio of adjusted debt to EBITDAR in order to maintain our investment grade credit ratings and believe this
is important information for the management of our debt levels. <U>To the extent EBITDAR continues to grow in future years, we expect our debt levels to increase; conversely, if EBITDAR declines, we would expect our debt levels to decrease.</U>
Refer to the &#147;Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures&#148; section for further details of our calculation. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Liquidity and Capital
Resources &#150; Stock Repurchases section </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><U>For the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;27, 2016, cash flow before share repurchases and changes in
debt was $1.167 billion as compared to $1.018 billion during the comparable prior year period. Cash flow before share repurchases and changes in debt is calculated as the net increase or decrease in cash and cash equivalents less increases in debt
plus share repurchases. We use cash flow before share repurchases and changes in debt to calculate the cash flows remaining and available to increase shareholder value in the form of share repurchases. We believe this is important information
regarding our allocation of available capital where we prioritize investments in the business and utilize the remaining funds to repurchase shares, while maintaining debt levels that support our investment grade credit ratings. If we allowed these
funds to accumulate on our balance sheet instead of repurchasing our shares, we believe our earnings per share and stock price would be negatively impacted. Refer to the &#147;Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures&#148; section for further
details of our calculation. </U></B></P>
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Measure: Cash Flow Before Share Repurchases and Changes in Debt section </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>The following table reconciles net increase (decrease) in
cash and cash equivalents to cash flow before share repurchases and changes in debt, which is presented in &#147;Selected Financial Data&#148; <U>and &#147;Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Operating activities</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,577,329</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,415,011</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,223,981</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(505,835</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(567,911</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(447,968</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(527,295</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(374,761</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Financing activities</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(1,052,797</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(896,702</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(911,557</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(843,433</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Effect of exchange rate changes on cash</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(4,272</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">)&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(9,686</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">)&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">585</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">(1,596</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">)&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">14,425</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">50,824</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">39,098</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">5,487</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">156,800</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">418,652</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">418,729</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Plus: Share repurchases</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,452,462</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,271,416</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,099,212</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,387,315</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,362,869</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Cash flow before share repurchases and changes in debt</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,166,987</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,018,440</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">924,706</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1,007,761</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
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