(UPI) A Texas woman who bought a $300 vacuum from Target said she brought the box home and discovered it contained dirty towels, rocks and a can of chili.

Annie Banerjee said she bought the Dyson vacuum for $300 from the Target at Houston's The Galleria shopping center on Sunday and discovered when she arrived home that there was no vacuum in the box, only rocks, dirty white towels and a can of bean-free chili.

Banerjee said she returned to the store about an hour later, but a store manager refused to refund her purchase and called the police on her.

Banerjee, an immigration lawyer originally from India, said she may have been racially profiled by the store manager, who described her to police as "Hispanic."

Target released a statement to KTRK-TV:

"At Target, we want our guests to feel welcome and respected whenever they shop in our stores. We regret the experience that Ms. Banerjee had in our Houston Galleria store on Sunday and have reached out to her to apologize. We will be refunding Ms. Banerjee's money and providing her a new Dyson vacuum at Target's expense. We've also addressed the situation with the team members who were involved and will use this as a learning opportunity for our team."

Banerjee told the Houston Chronicle she wants changes to Target's store policy to make sure similar incidents don't happen to "somebody who looks like me."

Randy Kallinen, Banerjee's attorney, said racial profiling is strongly suspected in the incident.

"We are suspicious whether it is because she is of darker complexion than your average clientele here, whether that caused her to be treated in the manner that she was treated," Kallinen said.

No lawsuit has yet been filed.

A Target representative said the store is looking into how the vacuum ended up replaced with the decoy box.

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