In an effort to boost membership, Walmart's Sam's Club division is throwing an Open House.
The event, which runs from Jan. 11 to 13, will include special sale prices aimed at small-business owners, including $499 HP G72 Notebooks, and 2,500 sheets of 20# Georgia-Pacific multipurpose paper for $17.
Typically, shoppers at Sam's are either required to buy a membership or to pay the additional 10% guest charge.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based company, which says its research shows that half of small-business owners are more optimistic about the coming year than they were last year, says it wanted to link the event to that renewed small-business optimism.