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Debt (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 28, 2015
New 1st Lien Term Loan [Member] |
Schedule of Payments [Line Items] |
Schedule Of Debt Payments [Table Text Block] | 2014 payments made under the 1 st Lien Term Loan or previous 1 st lien agreement are summarized as follows:
| 13 Weeks Ended
(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 |  | — |  | — |
1 st Lien Term Loan excess cash flow | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
| 6,500 |  | 10,000 |  | 17,000 |  | 6,250 |
2015 payments made, or required to be made for the remainder of the year, under the 1 st Lien Term Loan are summarized as follows:
| 13 Weeks Ended | 13 Weeks Ending
(Thousands of Dollars) | December 28 2014 |  | March 29 2015 |  | June 28 2015 |  | September 27 2015 |
Mandatory | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |  | 6,250 |
Voluntary | 5,000 |  | 4,000 |  | 4,000 |  | — |
Asset sales | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
Excess cash flow | — |  | — |  | — |  | 7,900 |
Pulitzer excess cash flow | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
| 11,250 |  | 10,250 |  | 10,250 |  | 14,150 |

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