AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

                                           

                                  AMENDMENT TO
                              EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT


          AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT  AGREEMENT  ("Amendment") dated as of December
     3, 2008 between 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. (the "Company") and James F. McCann
     (the "Executive").

          WHEREAS,  the Company and the  Executive  are parties to an Employment
     Agreement dated as of July 1, 1999 (the "Agreement");

          WHEREAS,  the Company and the Executive wish to amend the Agreement as
     set forth  herein  in order to comply  with  Section  409A of the  Internal
     Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

          NOW,  THEREFORE,  in  consideration  of the  mutual  covenants  herein
     contained, the Company and the Executive hereby agree as follows:

1. Section 5(a) is amended by adding the following sentence to the end thereof:

          "Any bonus  payable  under this Section shall be paid to the Executive
          after the end of the Company's last fiscal year for which it is earned
          but no later than the  fifteenth  day of the third month of the fiscal
          year  following the Company's  last fiscal year for which the bonus is
          earned."

2.  Section  6(c) and Section  11(a)(iii),  both of which relate to split dollar
life insurance, are deleted.

3. The  definition of "Good Reason" in  Section 10(g)(iii) of  the  Agreement is
amended to read in its entirety as follows:

     "(iii) "Good Reason" means the  occurrence,  without the written consent of
     the Executive,  of any of the following  events:  (A) the assignment to the
     Executive  of any duties  inconsistent  in any  material  respect  with the
     Executive's then position (including status,  offices, titles and reporting
     relationships),  authority, duties or responsibilities, or any other action
     or actions by the Company which when taken as a whole results in a material
     diminution   in   the   Executive's   position,    authority,   duties   or
     responsibilities;  (B) a  material  breach  by the  Company  of one or more
     provisions of this Agreement; or (C) the Company requiring the Executive to
     be  based at any  location  other  than  within  25 miles of the  Company's
     current  executive  office  location,  except for requirements of temporary
     travel on the Company's business to an extent substantially consistent with
     the Executive's  business travel obligations  existing immediately prior to
     the  date of  this  Agreement;  provided,  however,  that,  it  shall  be a
     condition  precedent to the Executive's  right to terminate  employment for
     Good  Reason  that (i) the  Executive  shall  first have given the  Company
     written  notice  that an event or  condition  constituting  Good Reason has
     occurred within ninety (90) days after such occurrence,  and any failure to
     give such written  notice within such period will result in a waiver by the
     Executive  of his right to  terminate  for Good  Reason as a result of such
     event or  condition,  and (ii) a period of thirty  (30) days from and after
     the giving of such written  notice  shall have elapsed  without the Company
     having  effectively  cured or remedied such  occurrence  during such 30-day
     period,  unless such  occurrence  cannot be cured or remedied within thirty
     (30) days,  in which  case the period for remedy or cure shall be  extended
     for a reasonable  time  provided that the Company has made and continues to
     make a diligent  effort to effect  such remedy or cure;  provided  further,
     however,  that  the  Executive's  termination  of  employment  due to `Good
     Reason' must occur not later than two years following the initial existence