Jim Jones was beaten by a Lowe’s manager who accused him of swapping tags and called the police for $78.
Police called Jim Jones at a store he frequented after he filed a complaint against Lowe’s Home Improvement after a dispute over mislabeled price tags.
The Harlem rapper recounted the encounter in a lengthy post on Instagram on Sunday, claiming a store manager refused to honor the price he saw on the shelf and treated him like a criminal in front of other customers.
According to Capo, the issue began when he tried to verify the price tag on an item, later identified by multiple stores as a set of locks, that was listed as $78 instead of the correct amount.
He said the manager wouldn’t fix the error and instead accused him of changing the label himself, which was the part that really pissed him off at the checkout.
Jones admitted that his first reaction was to throw it in the aisle, but said he managed to stay calm and refuse to give the store the reaction they expected.
“My first thought was to break down, but I knew I couldn’t handle every situation with that mentality because it would cause me to react in the wrong way,” Jim Jones said angrily.
From there, things got even more chaotic, as the rapper said he was rudely told to leave the store before the manager picked up the phone and called police over the disagreement.
Jim Jones believes the call was intended to intimidate him and hide the fact that the store needed to deal with the pricing blunder in the first place.
“I was rudely told to get out and they called the police because I knew I was right and they knew they were wrong, so to hide it or scare me they tried to call the police,” the rapper said.
Capo directed his true ire at the company later in the post, telling Lowe’s they needed to do better with the people they run their stores.
He echoed the tone of his recent public comments about respect in the industry, noting that none of this would have happened if the managers on duty had had any real customer service training to rely on.
The Dipset member is no stranger to last year’s headlines, and he made it clear in his caption that he didn’t want another incident like this to happen at a hardware store.
As of Monday morning, Lowe’s had not publicly responded to the rapper’s allegations in the Mail on Sunday.
