DINNER PARTY INTEL: You can now buy a Ferrari from a 'vending machine'
1. Fancy toast and coffee Australian property mogul Tim Gurner has advice for millennials struggling to purchase a home: stop buying avocado toast. "When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for A$19 and four coffees at A$4 each," Gurner told Australian news show 60 Minutes. About a quarter of Australia’s millennials own homes in the country. Yet Gurner says their expectations are too high. "They want to eat out every day and travel to Europe every year." 2. Serving a Ferrari Limited space has sparked a new way of selling cars in Singapore, where a "vending machine" is offering Bentleys, Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Car seller Autobahn Motors has opened a 15-storey showroom with vehicles on display in 60 slots. Customers on the ground floor choose which car they wish to see from a touch-screen display. The car arrives within one to two minutes. The store has been approached by developers who want to use its inventory management system for parking services...
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