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Employees' Retirement Plan
 3 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2016
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]  
Employees' Retirement Plan
9.         Employees' Retirement Plan:
 
The Company sponsors a noncontributory Money Purchase Plan covering substantially all of its non-union employees. Operations were charged $102,509 and $97,423 as contributions to the Plan for the three months ended October 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.
 
Multi-employer plan:
 
The Company contributes to a union sponsored multi-employer pension plan covering its union employees. The Company contributions to the pension plan were $12,611 and $13,153 for the three months ended October 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Contributions and costs are determined in accordance with the provisions of negotiated labor contracts or terms of the plans. The Company also contributes to union sponsored health benefit plans.
 
Contingent Liability for Pension Plan:
 
Information as to the Company’s portion of accumulated plan benefits and plan assets is not reported separately by the pension plan. Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, upon withdrawal from a multi-employer benefit plan, an employer is required to continue to pay its proportionate share of the plan’s unfunded vested benefits, if any. Any liability under this provision cannot be determined: however, the Company has not made a decision to withdraw from the plan.
 
Information for contributing employer’s participation in the multi-employer plan:

                     Legal name of Plan: United Food and Commercial
Workers Local 888 Pension Fund
Employer identification number: 13-6367793
Plan number: 001
Date of most recent Form 5500: December 31, 2015
Certified zone status: Critical and declining status
Status determination date: January 1, 2015
Plan used extended amortization provisions in status  
calculation: Yes
Minimum required contribution: None
Employer contributing greater than 5% of Plan  
contributions for year ended December 31, 2015: Yes
Rehabilitation plan implemented: Yes
Employer subject to surcharge: Yes

              The contract expired November 30, 2016 and the Company is in the process of negotiating an extension of the contract until November 30, 2019.