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Shareholders' Equity
 12 Months Ended
Aug. 30, 2025
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]  
Shareholders' Equity SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Common Stock Repurchases and Treasury Stock
In June 2021, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) terminated the existing share repurchase plan and authorized a new share repurchase (the “Share Repurchase Plan”) to purchase up to 5,000 shares of Class A Common Stock. There is no expiration date for the Share Repurchase Plan. As of August 30, 2025, the maximum number of shares of Class A Common Stock that may be repurchased under the Share Repurchase Plan was 1,413 shares. The Share Repurchase Plan allows the Company to repurchase shares at any time and in any increments it deems appropriate in accordance with Rule 10b-18 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
During fiscal years 2025 and 2024, the Company repurchased 496 shares and 1,991 shares, respectively, of Class A Common Stock for $39,317 and $187,695, respectively. In fiscal years 2025 and 2024, from these totals, 417 shares and 1,893 shares, respectively, were immediately retired and 79 shares and 98 shares, respectively, were repurchased by the Company to satisfy the Company’s associates’ tax withholding liability associated with its stock-based compensation program and are reflected at cost as treasury stock in the Consolidated Financial Statements for fiscal years 2025 and 2024. As of August 30, 2025 and August 31, 2024, the Company also recorded an accrual for excise tax on share repurchases of $71 and $1,523, respectively, which was recorded in Accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Shares of Class A Common Stock purchased to satisfy the Company’s associates’ tax withholding liability associated with its stock-based compensation program did not reduce the number of shares that may be repurchased under the Share Repurchase Plan. The Company reissued 59 shares and 53 shares of Class A treasury stock during fiscal years 2025 and 2024, respectively, to fund the Associate Stock Purchase Plan (as defined below) (see Note 13, “Associate Benefit Plans”).
Common Stock
Each holder of Class A Common Stock is entitled to one vote for each share held of record on the applicable record date on all matters presented to a vote of shareholders, including the election of directors. Holders of Class A Common Stock have no cumulative voting rights or preemptive rights to purchase or subscribe for any stock or other securities and there are no redemption or sinking fund provisions with respect to such stock.

Prior to the Reclassification, the Company had an additional class of common stock outstanding: Class B Common Stock. Class B Common Stock shares were convertible into shares of Class A Common Stock on a one-to-one basis at any time at the option of the holder, and all shares of Class B Common Stock would convert into shares of Class A
Common Stock on a one-to-one basis upon the sale of transfer of such shares of Class B Common Stock to any person who is not a member of the Jacobson or Gershwind families or any trust not established principally for members of the Jacobson or Gershwind families or to any person who is not an executor, administrator or personal representative of an estate of a member of the Jacobson or Gershwind families. Each holder of Class B Common Stock was entitled to 10 votes per share.
Preferred Stock
The Company has authorized 5,000 shares of preferred stock. The Board has the authority to issue the shares of preferred stock. Shares of preferred stock may have priority over Class A Common Stock with respect to dividend or liquidation rights, or both. As of August 30, 2025, there were no shares of preferred stock issued or outstanding.
Cash Dividend
In 2003, the Board instituted a policy of paying regular quarterly cash dividends to the Company’s shareholders. This policy is reviewed regularly by the Board. The Company expects its practice of paying quarterly cash dividends on its common stock will continue, although the payment of future dividends is at the discretion of the Board and will depend upon the Company’s earnings, capital requirements, financial condition and other factors.
On October 7, 2025, the Board declared a regular cash dividend of $0.87 per share, payable on November 26, 2025, to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 12, 2025. The dividend is expected to result in aggregate payments of $48,537, based on the number of shares outstanding at October 2, 2025.
Reclassification
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, the Company completed its reclassification of its common stock to eliminate Class B Common Stock (the “Reclassification”), effective at the time that the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (the “Effective Time”), as contemplated by that certain Reclassification Agreement, dated as of June 20, 2023, with Mitchell Jacobson, Erik Gershwind, other members of the Jacobson / Gershwind family and certain entities affiliated with the Jacobson / Gershwind family. Pursuant to the Reclassification, each share of Class B Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time was reclassified, exchanged and converted into 1.225 shares of Class A Common Stock. The issuance of Class A Common Stock in connection with the Reclassification was registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S‐4 (File No. 333-273418).