2 Minutes of Hate: GRPN, BBY, KFT

What Wall Street shenanigans are giving investors fits this week? Dayana Yochim and Alison Southwick rip into Groupon (NAS: GRPN) and its ongoing struggles with basic math, Best Buy's (NYS: BBY) turnaround-plan blunders, and the mother of all marketing misunderstandings, courtesy of Kraft (NYS: KFT) .

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