re: Help with riddle - How Much Money Did The Store Lose?

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A man steals a $100 bill from a store’s cash register. Then he buys $70 worth of goods at the store using the $100 he stole and he gets $30 in change back. How much money did the store lose?

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This is more complicated than it seems.

What sort of items did the man purchase? Do these items usually sell out at the store, or does the store usually take a loss on this inventory?

This is important context because it would be the difference in losing the full $70 value or whatever the cost value of those items actually was.

Regardless, the store loses $30 as the floor.

ETA: Question isn't how much money he stole. It's how much money the store lost.