I purchased this shoe as my first choice,the MW977, is no longer being made, and it's replacement didn't seem to suit me (especially after reading Amazon reviews). Although I would not recommend the MW927 for any serious hiking on trails or off road, it is probably a better overall choice for the city dweller/worker/ health walker, who spend most of their time walking on hard paved or concrete surfaces. Someone looking for a good, reasonably priced motion stabilizer-type shoe, that comes in a large variety of shoe sizes/wide widths would be it's target market. After now owning the shoe and wearing it, to me it would be a hard to find another shoe that would give you any noticably greater performance for what they were designed for. I must confess though- I bought it because of the current prices and it's reviews on Amazon. I.m glad I did. It's my new "dress" shoe.