商店街 and 市場: shopping streets and markets
Distinguish a shopping district from a market and connect the reading of 市場 to a concrete trading place.
A street of shops
商店街, read しょうてんがい, means a shopping street or district. 商店街を歩きました。 means walking through that district.
商店街のパン屋で買いました。 means buying something at a bakery in the shopping district. The specific purchase location is the bakery, not the entire district.
A physical market
市場, read いちば, is a concrete place where goods are bought and sold. 朝、市場で魚を買いました。 means buying fish at a market in the morning.
市場の入口で会いましょう。 proposes meeting at the market entrance. It neither proposes a trade nor reports a meeting already completed.
Reading and purpose
市場 also has the reading しじょう, used for such meanings as an economic market. The linked word in this guide is いちば, the concrete marketplace.
市場に行きましたが、何も買いませんでした。 says that someone went to the market but bought nothing. Do not equate a visit with a purchase.
Was anything purchased in 市場に行きましたが、何も買いませんでした?
Show the answer and why
No. The person visited but bought nothing.