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

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Let’s say the guy had two $100 bills on him (one stolen from the store and one his own).

If he buys the goods with the $100 that he already had no one would be saying the business was out extra money.

So it doesn’t suddenly make the store out extra money simply because he used a (stolen) $100

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Correct. Also people keep bringing up they would have sold the goods for $70 to someone else, why would you assume that someone else is not gonna buy $70 worth of dog food because the thief did? The original question mentions nothing about the thief buying the last anything the store had in stock. Most stores keep enough inventory in stock ahead of time to never run out. So the thief's purchase wouldn't prevent any other sales unless they stated that in the question.