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Debt (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 29, 2014
New 1st Lien Term Loan [Member] |
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Schedule Of Debt Payments [Table Text Block] |
| 13 Weeks Ended |  | 13 Weeks Ending |
(Thousands of Dollars) | December 29 2013 |  | March 30 2014 |  | June 29 2014 |  | September 28 2014 |
Mandatory | 3,000 |  | 3,000 |  | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |
Voluntary | 3,350 |  | 5,500 |  | 10,750 |  | — |
Asset sales | 150 |  | 1,500 |  | — |  | — |
Excess cash flow | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
| 6,500 |  | 10,000 |  | 17,000 |  | 6,250 |
New Pulitzer Notes [Member] |
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Schedule Of Debt Payments [Table Text Block] | 2013 payments made under the New Pulitzer Notes or Pulitzer Notes are summarized as follows:
|  |  | 13 Weeks Ended |
(Thousands of Dollars) | December 30 2012 |  | March 31 2013 |  | June 30 2013 |  | September 29 2013 |
Mandatory | 3,800 |  | 2,600 |  | — |  | — |
Voluntary | — |  | 1,500 |  | 14,000 |  | 17,000 |
Asset sales | 5,200 |  | 1,900 |  | — |  | — |
Excess cash flow | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
| 9,000 |  | 6,000 |  | 14,000 |  | 17,000 |
2014 payments made, or required to be made for the remainder of the year, under the New Pulitzer Notes are summarized below.
| 13 Weeks Ended |  | 13 Weeks Ending |
(Thousands of Dollars) | December 29 2013 |  | March 30 2014 |  | June 29 2014 |  | September 28 2014 |
Mandatory | 6,400 |  | — |  | — |  | — |
Voluntary | 1,600 |  | 10,000 |  | 13,000 |  | — |
Asset sales | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
Excess cash flow | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
| 8,000 |  | 10,000 |  | 13,000 |  | — |
1st Lien Agreement [Member] |
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Schedule Of Debt Payments [Table Text Block] | 2013 payments made under the previous 1st lien agreement are summarized as follows:
|  |  | 13 Weeks Ended |
(Thousands of Dollars) | December 30 2012 |  | March 31 2013 |  | June 30 2013 |  | September 29 2013 |
Mandatory | 2,500 |  | 2,500 |  | 3,000 |  | 3,000 |
Voluntary | 9,750 |  | 15,350 |  | 2,260 |  | 6,000 |
Asset sales | 7,750 |  | — |  | 240 |  | — |
Excess cash flow | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
| 20,000 |  | 17,850 |  | 5,500 |  | 9,000 |

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