Miller's Department Store

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Miller Brothers Company, its name shortened to Miller's after its acquisition by Garfinkel, Brooks Brothers, Miller & Rhoads, was a major East Tennessee chain of stores founded in Chattanooga, TN, becoming a part of Allied Stores and eventually sold to Hess's in 1986; later converted to Proffitt's in 1992. Its flagship store, on the corner of Seventh and Market streets in Chattanooga, was famed for having Chattanooga's only "Subway," which consisted of an underground shopping area that tunneled beneath Broad Street to another building at the corner of Seventh and Broad.

After Miller Brothers was sold to the Garfinkel chain, it was merged with a similar store in Knoxville, TN, called simply "Miller's." One of that store's former locations (in Knoxville) was later occupied by what would be the only Rich's department store ever opened in Tennessee. Miller's also had several Georgia locations, one in Dalton, GA, and one in Rome, GA which began as a multi-level downtown store and then moved to Rome's Riverbend Mall in 1975.