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                                                                  EXHIBIT  10(a)

                               SECOND AMENDMENT TO
                         THE FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
                                SYSCO CORPORATION
                     SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN

         THIS SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED SYSCO
CORPORATION SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN (this "Amendment").

         WHEREAS, Sysco Corporation has adopted that certain Fifth Amended and
Restated Sysco Corporation Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (the "Plan")
pursuant to a plan document executed July 7, 1997, as amended by that certain
First Amendment thereto dated as of June 29, 1997; and

         WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Sysco has determined to amend the
Plan to (i) guarantee the initial monthly benefit payable to a retiring
participant for a ten (10) year period, regardless of the death of the
Participant, the Participant's spouse, or the death of both the Participant and
the Participant's spouse; (ii) allow a Participant to receive full retirement
benefits under the Plan at or after age sixty-two (62) if the participant has
both (A) at least twenty-five (25) years of "Credited Service" under the Plan
with the Company (excluding any Credited Service before the later of the
Participant's first date of hire by the Company or the date of acquisition by
the Company of the company for which the Participant then worked) and (B) at
least fifteen (15) years of participation under the Sysco Corporation Management
Incentive Plan; and (iii) provide for the voluntary acceleration of benefits
upon a Change of Control of Sysco, all as hereinafter provided.

         NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as follows:

(Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning
given them in the Plan.)

         1. Section 1.2 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following at
the end thereof:

                  "Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of calculating
         the Change of Control Payout Benefit the Change of Control Rate as
         defined in Section 6.10(b)(i) shall be the assumed interest rate, and
         the mortality assumptions shall be the mortality assumptions used for
         purposes of calculating lump sum payments made under the Sysco
         Retirement Plan (or the successor qualified defined benefit plan)."

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         2. Section 1.21 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read
as follows:

         "1.21 Total Payments. "Total Payments" means all payments or benefits
         received or to be received by a Participant within the meaning of
         Section 280G of the Code in connection with a Change of Control of
         Sysco under the terms of this Agreement or the Sysco Corporation
         Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, and in connection with a Change
         of Control of Sysco under the terms of any stock option plan or any
         other plan, arrangement or agreement with the Company, its successors,
         any person whose actions result in a Change of Control or any person
         affiliated with the Company or who as a result of the completion of
         transactions causing a Change of Control become affiliated with the
         Company within the meaning of Section 1504 of the Code, taken
         collectively."

         3. Article III of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following
after the end of the first sentence:

                  "If a Change of Control occurs, each Participant will
         immediately vest 100% in his Accrued Benefit, effective as of the date
         of the Change of Control, without regard to the required 10 years or
         more of Credited Service to begin vesting or the vesting schedule.
         Moreover, each Participant who was a Participant or a frozen
         Participant on the date of a Change of Control shall be 100% vested in
         any Accrued Benefit which is accrued after the date of the Change of
         Control without regard to the Participant's Credited Service or the
         vesting schedule."

         4. Article III of the Plan is hereby amended by adding to the end
thereof the following:

                  "In addition, any Participant (i) who is at least sixty-two
         (62) upon termination of employment with the Company, (ii) who has
         completed at least twenty-five (25) years of Credited Service
         (excluding any Credited Service before the later of the Participant's
         first date of hire by the Company or the acquisition by the Company of
         the company for which the Participant then worked), and (iii) who has
         been a participant in the Sysco Corporation Management Incentive Plan
         for at least fifteen (15) years, shall be 100% vested in his Accrued
         Benefit."

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         5. Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 4.1 are hereby amended in their
entirety to read as follows:

                  "(a) the monthly benefit for the life of the Participant with
         ten (10) years certain which can be provided on an Actuarially
         Equivalent Basis with the vested benefit of the Participant in the
         Sysco Corporation Employees' 401(k) Plan and any other qualified
         defined contribution plan in the United States and/or registered
         deferred profit sharing plan in Canada sponsored and funded by the
         Company or any other company for which a Participant may have worked in
         the past or will work in the future,

                  (b) the monthly benefit for the life of the Participant with
         ten (10) years certain which can be provided on an Actuarially
         Equivalent Basis with the vested accrued benefit of the Participant
         from the Sysco Retirement Plan and any other qualified defined benefit
         plan in the United States and/or registered pension plan in Canada
         sponsored and funded by the Company or any other company for which a
         Participant may have worked in the past or will work in the future,
         and"

         6. Section 4.2(c) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read
as follows:

                  "(c) For a Participant who is not married at benefit
         commencement, the form of benefit payment will be a life only monthly
         annuity with a period of ten (10) years guaranteed, in an amount
         calculated in accordance with Section 4.1. For a Participant who is
         married at benefit commencement, (i) the form of benefit payment will
         be a joint and two-thirds survivor monthly annuity with a ten (10) year
         certain guarantee, in an amount that is the Actuarial Equivalent of the
         amount calculated in accordance with Section 4.1 whereby a reduced
         monthly amount is payable for the joint lives of the Participant and
         his spouse, and a monthly annuity will continue for the life of the
         survivor in an amount that equals two-thirds of the monthly amount
         provided during their joint lives. Notwithstanding the above, during
         the first ten (10) years there will be no reduction regardless of the
         death of either or both the Participant and his Spouse.

         7. Section 4.4 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

                           "4.4 Beneficiary for the Ten Year Certain Payment. If
         a Participant who receives a life annuity, with ten (10) years certain,
         dies prior to completing the ten (10) years certain period, the
         Beneficiary named by him, under Article V, for any death benefit that
         may be payable under that Article, will receive the remaining payments
         to be made under that annuity form after the Participant's death. If
         both a Participant and
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         the Participant's spouse, who receive the joint and two-thirds survivor
         annuity, with ten (10) years certain, die prior to completing the ten
         (10) years certain period, the Beneficiary named under Article V will
         receive the remaining payments to be made under that annuity form after
         the Participant's and the Participant's spouse's death. Even though a
         Participant with a frozen Accrued Benefit cannot receive a death
         benefit under Article V, a Beneficiary designation completed in
         accordance with Section 5.6, before or after a Participant's
         participation is frozen, will be effective for the purpose of awarding
         the remaining payments under the ten (10) years certain period."

         8. Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.3 of the Plan are hereby
amended in their entirety to read as follows:

                  "(a) If the Participant is married at the time of death, the
         Participant's designated Beneficiary will be entitled to receive a
         monthly annuity equal to the annuity such Beneficiary would have
         received (including the initial ten (10) year certain guarantee) if the
         Participant had begun receiving a retirement benefit under Article IV
         as of the date of the Participant's death (as if the Participant could
         have begun receiving the Participant's benefit as of that date) and
         then died immediately thereafter. In calculating the Participant's
         hypothetical retirement benefit for this purpose the Participant's
         vested percentage as of the Participant's date of termination will be
         used and the Participant's benefit will be reduced for early
         commencement by five-ninths of 1% for each full calendar month by which
         the first payment precedes the month in which the Participant would
         have attained age sixty-five (65); or

                  (b) If the Participant is single at the time of death, the
         Participant's designated Beneficiary will be entitled to receive a lump
         sum payment which is the Actuarial Equivalent of the ten (10) year
         certain guarantee payment that the Beneficiary would have received if
         the Participant had begun receiving a retirement benefit under Article
         IV as of the Participant's date of death (as if the Participant could
         have begun receiving the Participant's benefit as of that date) and
         then died immediately thereafter. In calculating the Participant's
         hypothetical retirement benefit for this purpose the Participant's
         vested percentage as of the Participant's date of termination will be
         used and the Participant's benefit will be reduced for early
         commencement by five ninths of 1% for each full calendar month by which
         the lump sum payment precedes the month in which the Participant would
         have attained age sixty-five (65)."

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         9. Section 5.4 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

                  "5.4 Death after Commencement of Retirement Benefits. Upon the
         death of a Participant after benefit commencement there is no death
         benefit other than the benefits due under the form of payment
         applicable to the Participant."

         10. Section 5.5(c) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to
read as follows:

                  "(c) If a frozen Participant dies after commencement of
         benefits there shall be no death benefit other than the benefits due
         under the form of payment applicable to such frozen Participant."

         11. Section 5.5 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof new
Subsection (d) to read as follows:

                  "(d) If a frozen Participant dies while actively employed
         either (x) after age sixty-five (65) or (y) after having met the early
         retirement criteria of Section 4.2(b), the following death benefits
         shall apply:

                           (i) If the Participant is married at the time of
         death, the Participant's designated Beneficiary will be entitled to
         receive a monthly annuity equal to the annuity the Beneficiary would
         have received (including the initial ten (10) year certain guarantee)
         had the Participant retired on the Participant's date of death, begun
         receiving a retirement benefit under Article IV, and then died
         immediately thereafter; or

                           (ii) If the Participant is single at the time of
         death, the Participant's designated Beneficiary will be entitled to
         receive the ten (10) year certain guarantee payments that such
         Beneficiary would have received had the Participant retired on the
         Participant's date of death, begun receiving a retirement benefit under
         Article IV, and then died immediately thereafter."

         12. Section 5.6 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read
as follows:

                  "5.6 Beneficiary Designation.

                           (a) Upon entering the Plan, each Participant shall
         file with the Committee a designation of one or more Beneficiaries to
         whom the death benefit provided by this Article V will be payable in
         the event of the Participant's death. The designation will be effective
         upon receipt by the Committee of a properly executed form which the
         Committee has approved for that purpose, and shall remain in force
         until revoked or changed by the

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         Participant. The Participant may from time to time revoke or change any
         designation of Beneficiary by filing another approved Beneficiary
         designation form with the Committee. In the case of a married
         Participant, any Beneficiary designation which designates any person or
         entity other than the Participant's spouse must be consented to by the
         spouse in writing in a form acceptable to the Committee in order to be
         effective.

                           (b) Upon the commencement of benefits under Article
         IV, the Participant shall designate one or more Beneficiaries to
         receive the remaining period certain payments, which designation shall
         be made and modified in accordance with the procedures set forth in
         Section 5.6(a). If the Participant does not designate one or more
         Beneficiaries to receive the remaining period certain payments upon the
         commencement of benefits, the Beneficiaries designated by the
         Participant upon entering the Plan shall be the Participant's
         Beneficiaries for purposes of the remaining period certain payments. A
         spouse of a Participant may not change the Beneficiaries designated by
         the Participant, including the Beneficiaries to whom the remaining
         period certain payments may be paid; provided, however, that a spouse
         of a Participant who is receiving the survivor annuity provided under
         Section 4.2(c) may change the Beneficiaries designated by the
         Participant if all such Beneficiaries have predeceased the Participant
         or otherwise cease to exist.

                           (c) If there is no valid designation of Beneficiary
         on file with the Committee at the time of the Participant's death or if
         all of the Beneficiaries designated in the last Beneficiary designation
         have predeceased the Participant or otherwise cease to exist, the
         Beneficiary will be the Participant's spouse, if the spouse survives
         the Participant, or otherwise the Participant's estate. A Beneficiary
         must survive the Participant by 60 days in order to be considered to be
         living on the date of the Participant's death. If any Beneficiary
         survives the Participant but dies or otherwise ceases to exist before
         receiving all payments due under Article IV or this Article V, the
         balance of the payments, which would have been paid to that Beneficiary
         will, unless the Participant's designation provides otherwise, be
         distributed to the deceased individual Beneficiary's estate or to the
         Participant's estate in the case of a Beneficiary which is not an
         individual.

         13. Section 6.8 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following
after the end of the first sentence thereof:

         "The reduction in benefits payable under this Plan shall be determined
         by reducing the percentage in which the Participant is vested in his
         Accrued Benefit."

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         14. Article VI of the Plan is hereby amended by adding at the end
thereof new Section 6.10 to read as follows:

                  "6.10 Acceleration of Payments Upon a Change of Control. If
         there is a Change of Control of Sysco, then the provisions of this
         Section 6.10 shall apply notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
         the Plan:

                  (a) Any Participant, frozen Participant, former Participant
         receiving benefits under Article IV, or former Participant with a
         vested Accrued Benefit at the time of the Change of Control, or, if the
         Participant or former Participant is then deceased, the Participant's
         or former Participant's Beneficiary, shall be entitled to make an
         election (a "Change of Control Payout Election") to receive a lump sum
         payment of such person's accrued vested (taking into account vesting
         pursuant to the second sentence of Article III) benefits under the Plan
         as more fully described in Subsections (b) and (c) below. A Change of
         Control Payout Election shall be made by written notice to the
         Committee by the electing person at any time after the Change of
         Control. The payment (the "Change of Control Payout Benefit") shall be
         made by the latter of ninety (90) days from the date of receipt of the
         Change of Control Payout Election or as soon as administratively
         feasible.

                  (b) The Change of Control Payout Benefit shall be determined
         as follows:

                           (i) If a Participant or a frozen Participant makes a
         Change of Control Payout Election, then the Change of Control Payout
         Benefit for such Participant or frozen Participant shall be equal to
         ninety percent (90%) of the sum of (A) the single sum value of the
         Participant's or frozen Participant's vested Accrued Benefit as of the
         date of the Change of Control Payout Election assuming commencement of
         the accrued vested benefit as of the "Assumed Payment Date" and (B) for
         a Participant who on such Assumed Payment Date would be eligible for
         the temporary social security supplement under Section 4.3 of the Plan
         if the Participant retired from Sysco on that date, the single sum
         value of the benefit that would be paid to the Participant under such
         Section 4.3 of the Plan. The interest rate for purposes of the
         calculations required to made under this Section 6.10(b)(i) shall be
         one hundred twenty percent (120%) of the applicable federal rate
         determined under Section 1274(d) of Code as of the date of the Change
         of Control (the "Change of Control Rate") and the mortality table shall
         be the table used for purposes of calculating lump sum payments under
         the Sysco Retirement Plan or the successor qualified defined benefit
         plan (the "Change of Control Mortality Assumption").

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                           (ii) If either (A) a Beneficiary, or (B) a former
         Participant is entitled to or is receiving current payments under the
         Plan other than pursuant to this Section 6.10 of the Plan, then the
         Change of Control Payout Benefit for such Beneficiary or Participant
         shall be equal to ninety percent (90%) of the single sum value of the
         remaining benefit available to such Beneficiary or former Participant
         determined by the actuarial firm employed by Sysco with any discounting
         using the Change of Control Rate and the Change of Control Mortality
         Assumption.

                           (iii) The "Assumed Payment Date" shall be the
         earliest date on which the Participant could have terminated employment
         with the Company and commenced receipt of an immediate benefit under
         the Plan assuming for this purpose that the Participant continued in
         the employ of the Company indefinitely following the Change of Control.

                  (c) For purposes of determining the Change of Control Payout
         Benefit under Section 6.10(b)(ii), the Accrued Benefit of a Participant
         or frozen Participant shall be calculated in accordance with Section
         4.1 subject to the following modifications:

                           (i) The amount determined under Section 4.1(a) shall
         be based on (A) the Participant's or frozen Participant's vested
         benefit, as of the date of the Change of Control Payout Election, in
         the plans identified therein, (B) increased by interest on such vested
         benefit through the Assumed Payment Date. The interest used for
         purposes of making this calculation shall be the Change of Control
         Rate.

                           (ii) The amount determined under Section 4.1(b) shall
         be adjusted to reflect any reduction in benefits that would occur under
         the plans identified therein as a result of receiving benefits on the
         Assumed Payment Date.

                           (iii) The amount determined under Section 4.1(c)
         shall be calculated based on the laws in effect on the date of the
         Change of Control Payout Election assuming that payment of the Primary
         Social Security Benefit will be made at the latter of (A) the Assumed
         Payment Date or (B) the earliest date benefits will be payable to the
         Participant or frozen Participant under the federal Social Security
         System or the Canadian Pension Plan, and further assuming that the
         Participant or frozen Participant will have no additional compensation
         following the date of the Change of Control Payout Election.

                  (d) Unless a Change of Control Payout Election is made under
         this Section 6.10, all benefits accrued under the Plan shall be paid in
         accordance with Articles IV and V following a Change of Control."

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         15. Article VI of the Plan is hereby amended by adding at the end of
Section 6.10 thereof new Section 6.11 to read as follows

                  "6.11 Participation in the Plan Following a Change of Control
         Payout Election. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a
         Participant who makes a Change of Control Payout Election shall remain
         a Participant in the Plan and shall continue to accrue benefits under
         the Plan for as long as the Participant continues to satisfy the
         participation requirements of Article II of the Plan. Any benefits
         accrued following the Change of Control Payout Election shall be paid
         in accordance with Articles IV and V of the Plan, and any benefits
         distributed to a Participant or the Beneficiary of a Participant who
         has received a Change of Control Payout Benefit shall be reduced by the
         value of the Change of Control Payout Benefit."

         16. For purposes of administering the Plan from and after the date
hereof, Section 4.2(c) of the Plan, as amended by this Second Amendment, shall
be deemed to apply to any former Participant, former Participant's spouse or
former Participant's Beneficiary who is receiving benefits or entitled to
receive benefits under Article IV as of the date hereof such that the initial
benefits payable to such former Participant, former Participant's spouse or
former Participant's Beneficiary shall be guaranteed for a period of ten (10)
years. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the monthly benefits payable to
such former Participant, former Participant's spouse or former Participant's
Beneficiary shall not be re-calculated to take into account the ten (10) year
certain guarantee.

         Except as specifically amended hereby, the Plan shall remain in full
force and effect as prior to this Second Amendment.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Second Amendment to be
executed as of this 28th day of September, 2000, effective as of May 10, 2000.

                                        SYSCO CORPORATION

                                        By: /s/ Diane Day Sanders
                                            -------------------------------
                                        Title: Vice President and Treasurer
                                               ----------------------------

         [Corporate Seal]

         ATTEST:

         By:    Kent Berke
             ----------------------
         Title: Assistant Secretary
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                                                                  EXHIBIT  10(b)

                               SECOND AMENDMENT TO
                              AMENDED AND RESTATED
                                SYSCO CORPORATION
                      EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

         THIS SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED SYSCO CORPORATION
EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (this "Amendment").

         WHEREAS, Sysco Corporation (the "Company") has adopted that certain
Amended and Restated Sysco Corporation Executive Deferred Compensation Plan (the
"Plan") pursuant to a plan document executed August 16, 1995 as amended by a
First Amendment thereto dated as of June 29, 1997; and

         WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has determined to amend
the Plan to provide for the voluntary acceleration of benefits upon a change of
control of the Company, all as hereinafter provided.

         NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as follows:

(Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning
given them in the Plan.)

         1. Article VI of the Plan is hereby amended by adding at the end
thereof new Section 6.12 to read as follows:

         "6.12    Acceleration of Payments Upon a Change of Control.

                  (a) If there is a Change of Control of Sysco, then any
Participant or, if the Participant is deceased, the Participant's Beneficiary,
shall be entitled to make an election (a "Change of Control Payout Election") to
receive a lump sum payment in full satisfaction of all benefits to which the
Participant or Beneficiary would otherwise be entitled under the Plan. A Change
of Control Payout Election shall be made by written notice to the Committee by
the electing person at any time after the Change of Control of Sysco. The
payment (the "Change of Control Payout Benefit") shall be made by the latter of
ninety (90) days from the date of receipt of the Change of Control Payout
Election or as soon as administratively feasible. If a Participant or
Beneficiary makes a Change of Control Payout Election, the Change of Control
Payout Benefit shall be the exclusive payment to which the Participant, the
Participant's spouse and/or the Beneficiary will be eligible under the Plan and
no benefit payments shall be made to a Participant or the Participant's
Beneficiary pursuant to any other provision of this Plan following a Change of
Control Payout Election, provided that a Participant who remains employed by the
Company after making the Change of Control Payout Election shall not be
precluded from further participation in the Plan with respect to future
deferrals pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Plan to the extent such Participant
otherwise continues to be eligible to make such election.

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                  (b) Subject to reduction pursuant to Sections 6.6, 6.7 and/or
6.10 hereof, a Participant's Change of Control Payout Benefit shall be
determined as follows:

                           (i) If the Participant or the Participant's
Beneficiary has not received any payments pursuant to the Plan on or prior to
the Change of Control Payout Election, the Change of Control Payout Benefit
shall equal ninety percent (90%) the balance of the Participant's Account as of
the date of the Change of Control Payout Election.

                           (ii) If the Participant or the Participant's
Beneficiary has received payments pursuant to the Plan on or prior to the Change
of Control Payout Election, the "Change of Control Payout Benefit" shall equal
the sum of (A) ninety percent (90%) of the remaining principal balance of the
installment payments due the Participant or the Participant's Beneficiary as of
the date of the Change of Control Payout Election, and (B) interest on such
remaining principal balance, determined pursuant to Section 4.5 hereof from the
date of the last installment paid pursuant to the Plan with respect to the such
Participant or Beneficiary through the date of payment of the Change of Control
Payment Benefit.

         Except as specifically amended hereby, the Plan shall remain in full
force and effect as prior to this Second Amendment.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Second Amendment to be
executed as of this 28th day of September, 2000, effective as of May 10, 2000.

                                        SYSCO CORPORATION

                                        By:    /s/ Diane Day Sanders
                                            -------------------------------
                                        Title: Vice President and Treasurer
                                               ----------------------------

         [Corporate Seal]

         ATTEST:

         By:    Kent Berke
             -------------------
         Title: Assistant Secretary
                -------------------

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