EXHIBIT 10.1

 

AMENDMENT NO. 6 TO THE UNIFIED WESTERN GROCERS, INC.

SHELTERED SAVINGS PLAN

 

Unified Western Grocers, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby amends the above-named plan
(the “Plan”), effective as of December 1, 2005, as follows:

 

1.    Section 3.2(b) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

 

“(b)    A Participant’s election to forgo receipt of a portion of his or her
Compensation shall be subject to such rules, modification or cancellation as the
Committee, in its discretion, shall permit; provided, however, that the
Committee shall exercise its discretion in a nondiscriminatory manner.”

 

2.    The last sentence of Section 3.4(a) of the Plan is hereby amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

 

“A Participant’s election to forgo receipt of a portion of his or her
Compensation shall be subject to such rules, modification or cancellation as the
Committee, in its discretion, shall permit; provided, however, that the
Committee shall exercise its discretion in a nondiscriminatory manner.”

 

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The Company has caused this Amendment No. 6 to be signed on the date indicated
below, to be effective as indicated above.

 

“Company”

 

UNIFIED WESTERN GROCERS, INC.

By:    

/S/    ROBERT M. LING, JR.      

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    Robert M. Ling, Jr. Its:    

Executive Vice President,

General Counsel and Secretary

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Dated: February 8, 2006