The 1998 Warner Brothers promotional website still existed at review time and opened with an AOL intro into the movie's original marketing.
The panel wonders how audiences found a film URL before modern search and notes that building such a site would have been a substantial period marketing project.
Contemporary critics were described as harsh on the movie, with some objecting to its AOL and Starbucks product placement.

The Zabar's cashier's accent and the joke built around her English are criticized as cheap and inconsistent with the rest of the film.

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The only stated nitpick is the cashier's unidentified accent and a joke that depends on her supposedly weak English.
The panel says the scene would not pass now and feels especially conspicuous in a movie with little other representation.

The panel asks whether the children's store could survive, why Dave Chappelle is in the movie, and whether the Fox family remains wealthy.

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The economics of the Shop Around the Corner are questioned, then partly defended by the existence of independent bookstores and the real storefront's earlier life as a cheese shop.
Dave Chappelle's presence in this supporting role is called hard to explain despite his growing 1990s film career.
The panel asks whether the Fox family remains rich after online retail pressure and imagines they would have sold their boats.