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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-14-134596
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20140408

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SYSCO CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000096021
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	WHOLESALE-GROCERIES & RELATED PRODUCTS [5140]
		IRS NUMBER:				741648137
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0628

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1390 ENCLAVE PKWY
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77077
		BUSINESS PHONE:		281-584-1390

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		STREET 1:		1390 ENCLAVE PKWY
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77077
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Sysco Corporation</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">1390 Enclave Parkway</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Houston, TX 77077</P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>sysco.com</B></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">April&nbsp;8, 2014 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Via
EDGAR</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mara L. Ransom </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Assistant Director </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Division of Corporation Finance </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">100 F Street, NE </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Washington, D.C. 20549-0404
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<TD VALIGN="top">Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June&nbsp;29, 2013</TD></TR>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Dear Ms.&nbsp;Ransom: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This
letter sets forth the responses of Sysco Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148; or &#147;Sysco&#148;) to the comments of the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;)
contained in the letter dated March&nbsp;25, 2014 with respect to the Company&#146;s Form 10-K, filed August&nbsp;27, 2013 (&#147;Form 10-K&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Please understand that the Company is dedicated to its compliance with disclosure requirements and continually strives to enhance the level, clarity and
transparency of its disclosures in its filings. Sysco appreciates your review and your comments and views them as additional tools in achieving these goals. The Company&#146;s responses to your comments are listed below. For your convenience,
comments contained in your March&nbsp;25, 2014 letter are reprinted in bold italics below. Where Sysco intends to provide additional disclosures, with the Staff&#146;s permission, Sysco intends to include these on a prospective basis. In these
cases, example language is provided to facilitate your review. </P>

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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">April 8, 2014 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"> Page
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I><U>Item&nbsp;1. Business, page 1 </U></I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I><U>Type
of Customer, page 2 </U></I></B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B><I>Please provide further details regarding the &#147;Other&#148; type of customer included in your chart on page 2, including but not limited to the types of customers included in this group. We note that
&#147;Other&#148; customers constituted 16% of your sales in each of 2012 and 2011, but increased to 20% of your sales in 2013. </I></B></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Company Response </U></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Sysco&#146;s
&#147;Other&#148; type of customers includes airlines, cruise lines, cafeterias that are not stand alone restaurants, governments and military organizations, bakeries, caterers, churches, civic and fraternal organizations, vending distributors,
other distributors and international exports. None of the type of customers included in &#147;Other,&#148; as a group, exceeded 4% of the total sales in any of the years for which information is presented. With the announcement earlier in fiscal
2014 of our agreement to merge with US Foods, Inc., Sysco is reevaluating its sales by types of customer classification and therefore, in future filings, we may use a different classification; however, we will endeavor to present similar detail to
that shown below with respect to any future classifications. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I>Based upon available information, we estimate that sales by type of
customer during the past three fiscal years were as follows: </I></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt"><I>Other includes airlines, cruise lines, cafeterias that are not stand alone restaurants, governments and military organizations, bakeries, caterers,
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">April 8, 2014 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"> Page
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fraternal organizations, vending distributors, other distributors and international exports. None of these types of customers, as a group, exceeded 4% of total sales in any of the years for which
information is presented. </I></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I><U>Item&nbsp;7. Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations, page 17 </U></I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I><U>Business Transformation Project, page 19 </U></I></B></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B><I>We note your statement on page 18 that that you &#147;have experienced higher operating expenses this fiscal year as compared to fiscal 2012. [Y]our Business Transformation Project has been a primary contributor
to this increase.&#148; We also note your statement on page 20 that &#147;[d]espite the increase in expense, our cash outlay for our Business Transformation Project, which excludes non-cash software amortization, decreased approximately $48 million
as compared to fiscal 2012.&#148; Please provide the basis for this disclosure, and reconcile the above statements. </I></B></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Company
Response </U></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Sysco&#146;s Business Transformation Project includes an integrated software system commonly referred to as an Enterprise
Resource Planning system. Expenditures associated with this system have been expensed or capitalized as internal-use software, in accordance with accounting principles. Sysco&#146;s disclosure provided in the Business Transformation Update section
was intended to provide the reader with the impact this project had to Sysco&#146;s operating expenses and cash outlay in fiscal 2013 as compared to fiscal 2012. In fiscal 2013, Sysco&#146;s expenses increased compared to fiscal 2012 primarily from
non-cash amortization expense and lower levels of capitalization of costs applied to internal use software. This was principally the result of the Company&#146;s determination that the software was ready for its intended use during the first quarter
of fiscal 2013, and thus Sysco began amortizing the asset. Sysco experienced lower levels of cash outlay as the total cash expended in fiscal 2013, for items recognized as an expense or a capital asset, were lower than fiscal 2012 by $48 million.
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">April 8, 2014 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"> Page
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I>Operating expense</I></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><I>$</I></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><I>330.5</I></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><I>20.0</I></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><I>$</I></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><I>322.2</I></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I>Expenses related to the Business Transformation Project were $330.5 million in fiscal 2013 or $0.36 per
share and $193.1 million in fiscal 2012 or $0.21 per share. The increase in costs in 2013 was largely attributable to deployment costs and software amortization, which began in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 and totaled $76.8 million. Despite the
increase in expense, our cash outlay for our Business Transformation Project, which excludes non-cash expenses such as software amortization, decreased approximately $48 million as compared to fiscal 2012 due to lower levels of spend on internal
labor and consultants. </I></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I><U>Contractual Obligations, page 39 </U></I></B></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B><I>Please confirm that your operating lease obligations are included in your tabular disclosure of contractual obligations under the heading &#147;Long-term non-capitalized leases.&#148; If true, revise your
disclosure accordingly in future filings. In this regard, we note your disclosure regarding operating leases in Note 11 of your financial statements. Please see Item&nbsp;303(a)(5)(i) of Regulation S-K. </I></B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Sysco confirms that &#147;Long-term non-capitalized leases&#148; includes its operating lease obligations. In future filings, this caption in
the Contractual Obligations table and in our disclosure within the lease footnote will be changed to &#147;Operating lease obligations.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Sysco
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<TD VALIGN="top">B. Joseph Alley, Jr., Arnall Golden Gregory LLP</TD></TR>
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