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Percentage of Sales from Largest Customers (Detail) (Sales Revenue, Net, Wal-Mart/Sam's Club)	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 03, 2015	Dec. 28, 2013	Dec. 29, 2012
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Percentage of sales, Total	19.50%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1	20.20%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1	20.80%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1
DSD Segment
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Percentage of sales, Total	16.80%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1 / us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis = us-gaap_SalesRevenueNetMember / us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis = flo_WalmartSamsClubMember / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = flo_DirectStoreDeliveryMember	17.10%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1 / us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis = us-gaap_SalesRevenueNetMember / us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis = flo_WalmartSamsClubMember / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = flo_DirectStoreDeliveryMember	16.90%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1 / us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis = us-gaap_SalesRevenueNetMember / us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis = flo_WalmartSamsClubMember / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = flo_DirectStoreDeliveryMember
Warehouse Segment
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Percentage of sales, Total	2.60%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1 / us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis = us-gaap_SalesRevenueNetMember / us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis = flo_WalmartSamsClubMember / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = flo_WarehouseDeliveryMember	3.10%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1 / us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis = us-gaap_SalesRevenueNetMember / us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis = flo_WalmartSamsClubMember / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = flo_WarehouseDeliveryMember	3.90%us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskPercentage1 / us-gaap_ConcentrationRiskByBenchmarkAxis = us-gaap_SalesRevenueNetMember / us-gaap_MajorCustomersAxis = flo_WalmartSamsClubMember / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = flo_WarehouseDeliveryMember

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