I am a kitchen designer and if there is one thing I have learned over the last 10 years of going to peoples houses (especially in the winter) is that everybody has different feelings on how to shovel walk ways.  I never know what I am going to run into and I always wear an easy to slip off shoe as I don't wear my shoes into other peoples homes.  So I put these on my LLBean easy slip off shoes and had NO issues on any type of icy/snowy surface.  At first it is weird because you feel you need to walk carefully and realize I'm not going to fall or slip!  Such a great feeling!