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Derivative Instruments
 12 Months Ended
Oct. 03, 2025
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
Derivative Instruments DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS:
The Company enters into contractual derivative arrangements to manage changes in market conditions related to interest on debt obligations, including interest rate swap agreements, that are recognized as either assets or liabilities on the balance sheet at fair value at the end of each quarter. The counterparties to the Company's contractual derivative agreements are all major
international financial institutions. The Company is exposed to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by these counterparties. The Company continually monitors its positions and the credit ratings of its counterparties and does not anticipate nonperformance by the counterparties. The Company formally documents the hedging relationship and its risk management objective and strategy for undertaking the hedge, the hedging instrument, the hedged item, the nature of the risk being hedged and how the hedging instrument's effectiveness in offsetting the hedged risk will be assessed prospectively and retrospectively for designated hedges. The Company also formally assesses, both at the hedge's inception and on an ongoing basis, whether the derivatives that are used in hedging transactions are highly effective in offsetting cash flows of hedged items.
Cash Flow Hedges
The Company has approximately $2.5 billion notional amount of outstanding interest rate swap agreements as of October 3, 2025, which fix the rate on a like amount of variable rate borrowings with varying maturities through July of fiscal 2028. During fiscal 2025, the Company entered into $1.0 billion notional amount of interest rate swap agreements to hedge the cash flow risk of variability in interest payments on variable rate borrowings. In addition, interest rate swaps with notional amounts of $800.0 million matured during fiscal 2025.
Changes in the fair value of a derivative that is designated as and meets all the required criteria for a cash flow hedge are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss and reclassified into earnings as the underlying hedged item affects earnings. Amounts reported in accumulated other comprehensive loss related to derivatives will be reclassified to interest expense as interest payments are made on the Company’s variable-rate debt. Cash flows from hedging transactions are classified in the same category as the cash flows from the respective hedged item. As of October 3, 2025 and September 27, 2024, $12.1 million and $36.5 million, respectively, of unrealized net of tax gains related to the interest rate swaps were included in "Accumulated other comprehensive loss."
The following table summarizes the unrealized gain (loss) arising from the Company's derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments on Other comprehensive income (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended
October 3, 2025September 27, 2024September 29, 2023
Interest rate swap agreements(1)
$11,159 $(22,016)$51,541 
(1)Change in the amounts driven by changes in forward interest rates.
The following table summarizes the location and fair value, using Level 2 inputs (see Note 16 for a description of the fair value levels), of the Company's derivatives designated and not designated as hedging instruments on the Consolidated Balance Sheets (in thousands):
Balance Sheet LocationOctober 3, 2025September 27, 2024
ASSETS
Interest rate swap agreementsPrepayments and other current assets$— $8,134 
Interest rate swap agreementsOther Assets20,262 41,158 
$20,262 $49,292 
LIABILITIES
Interest rate swap agreementsOther Noncurrent Liabilities3,972 — 
The following table summarizes the location of the (gain) loss reclassified from "Accumulated other comprehensive loss" into earnings on the Consolidated Statements of Income (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended
Income Statement LocationOctober 3, 2025September 27, 2024September 29, 2023
Interest rate swap agreements(1)
Interest Expense, net$(44,160)$(76,150)$(59,117)
(1)Change in the amounts driven by changes in forward interest rates.
As of October 3, 2025, the Company has a Euro denominated term loan in the amount of €87.9 million. The term loan was designated as a hedge of the Company's net Euro currency exposure represented by certain holdings in the Company's European affiliates.
At October 3, 2025, the net of tax gain expected to be reclassified from "Accumulated other comprehensive loss" into earnings over the next twelve months based on current market rates is approximately $12.1 million.