Deals

ROCKLAND, Mass. -- Tedeschi Realty Corp. here has reportedly sold 25 shopping centers, most in southeastern Massachusetts, to Denver-based Dividend Capital Total Realty Trust for $377 million, in the largest deal of its kind in the state's history.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hy-Vee Inc. here has leased sites for two stores in Columbia, Mo. that are expected to open within the next year.

LOS ANGELES - Tesco today said it has identified 12 store locations in the Los Angeles area for its pending Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, and that it is investigating additional locations in and around the city.

LONDON -- Supermarket group J Sainsbury PLC here confirmed yesterday that is in talks with a Qatari investment fund that has proposed a takeover of the retailer. This is the second bid this year for J Sainsbury, which is Britain's third-largest supermarket group.

MILWAUKEE - Roundy's Supermarkets Inc. reportedly sold two former warehouse properties here to a subsidiary investors group affiliated with Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate Inc. for $8.5 million

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- ShopRite operator Village Super Market, Inc. said yesterday that it expects to acquire the store fixtures, lease, and other assets of a soon-to-be former Stop & Shop in Absecon, N.J.

QUINCY, Mass. -- The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. here said Friday that it would close nine underperforming stores in southern New Jersey at the beginning next month, and, confirming much local press speculation, sell the locations' fixtures and assets to Elizabeth, N.J.-based Wakefern Food Corp., the co-op owned by independent ShopRite store operators.

AMSTERDAM -- Ahold here said Tuesday that it has successfully completed the sale of its U.S. Foodservice division to a consortium of private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund VII, L.P. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, L.P. for $7.1 million.